[jawsscripts] Re: making menu bar accessible
- From: "Stan Bobbitt" <SBOBBITT@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:04:55 -0400
This may not apply at all to your situation but ...
I have trouble with the menu bar in many applications. I use windows vista,
and in some cases, when I can't seem to access the menu bar or jaws doesn't
want to speak it, I move the mouse pointer around a bit and bada bing, I can
get to the menu bar and jaws speaks it!
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] making menu bar accessible
> 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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