[jawsscripts] Re: making menu bar accessible
- From: Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:03:45 -0400
Try activating the menu and move to a item in the menu. then rout
jaws to pc and make sure your on that item. Now hit insert + f2, and
go to custom highlight assign...
Let it pick the colors and see if that reads the menu items now.
At 02:47 PM 5/29/2008, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>I am scripting an application and trying to make the menu bar
>accessible. Its current behavior is the following:
>If I press alt + f I hhave access to the items in the file menu. This
>same statement is true to all of the other menus in the menu bar.
>If, however, I press only the alt key to give me access to the menu
>bar nothing happens.
>If I use the activateMenuBar() function, I am placed in the menu bar,.
>I can right and left arrow through the menus, but jaws won't speak the
>name of the currently selected menu, although if I press the down
>arrow I am able to hear the items of tthat menu.
>So let's supose I have three menus in the application, file edit and view.
>If I press the alt key nothing happens.
>If I press alt+f I am successfully able to access the file menu items,
>such as open, close and save.
>if I use the activateMenuBar scripting function, I am placed on the
>menu bar, but jaws doesn't speak the currently selected menu.
>If I, for example, after placed in the menu bar, press the right arrow
>once, jaws doesn't speak nothing, but if I press down arrow, I have
>access to the items of the edit menu, such as copy and find, so I know
>that the right and left arrows are in fact selecting menus in the menu
>bar, the only problem is the miss of jaws feedback.
>This said, it's a common problem that I found in more than one
>application, and I have no idea about how to fix this. VMware servver
>has this problem also, and this feature is missing in ty scripts,
>although I am scripting at the moment a different application
>Do you know how can I make jaws read the menu bar correctly?
>Thanks,
>Marlon
>
>
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