[jawsscripts] Re: writing small script

  • From: "bharatvaya" <bharatvaya@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 19:36:23 +0530

hi Geoff I have tried everything what you have discuss up till now except 
Hotspot Clicker.  I try to rich on that button with jaws curser it does not 
rich but it jump over it.----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 9:14 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: writing small script


> Hmmm, But, if bharatvaya says it's not accessible via the keyboard, then
> wouldn't that mean the b solution would not work either? for  in my
> understanding,
> the quickKey B, only takes you to elements that tab would normally readily
> locate also....
>
> So one must presume that this particular bank website, is, for some 
> reason,
> doing rather poorly as regards their current knowledge/implementation of
> accessibility?
>
> That's one of the first things I'd be doing if I were you bharatvaya.
> I.e. seeking to get in touch with someone in the bank's customer service
> devision, hopefully who understands the first thing about accessing a
> website from the keyboard,
> and explaining the situation to them, and requesting that they'd take a 
> look
> at insuring that this button, and all/any others, are definitely in the
> tab-order, such that the sighted non-jaws user can tab to them and 
> activate
> them successfully with spacebar.
>
> secondly, I'd wanna try to establish, if perhaps this button, is truly a
> graphical BitMap button/area which is also not at all 
> accessible/labellable
> via Jaws Graphics labeller feature?
> Mind you to be honest, I've never personally found this to be a 
> particularly
> helpful/useful feature in html land, but might be worth a longshot?
> For then at least, you might have a chance of labelling it, then either
> navigating to it with Jaws+Arrows, or even using the Jaws Find labelled
> Graphics feature, under JawsKey+Control+F.
> Mind you, In the past, that seems to me to have even been a bit of a
> dodgy/unreliable feature anywayz!
>
> I can't test at the moment under jaws13, but I've had instances where that
> JawsFind feature, at least on the part of graphics, seems to have changed
> depending on whether the jaws cursor was active or not, at the time of
> hitting next?
> Plus, you had to insure you were at the top of the window, with 
> controlHome,
> and then choose forward.  I.e.
> to my knowledge It was never made inteligent enough to just auto-wrap, and
> search the whole window for the instance of the labelled graphic.
> goodness knows why not.
>
> Lastly though, if all that fails, then the HotSpotClicker tool, might well
> become your friend!
>
> Http://www.hotSpotClicker.org
>
> rather easier than writing a script to locate this, if indeed it is 
> nothing
> but a BitMap pattern of red pixels denoting this button,
> because of it's wizard-based approach, HotSpotClicker, HSC, was really
> Designed for specifically solving these types of problems, and a great 
> deal
> more besides.
>
> however, I feel I should say that To utilize all it's cool features, HSC 
> is
> not the most straightforward tool to connect to the internet explorer
> application, for a bunch of reasons I won't go into yet.
> as for it's full feature set, it requires some careful pasting of
> information into certain parts of the internet explorer script set.  Which
> if you've never ventured into script land before, really should not be
> attempted in my view, as it's perilously easy to break things in here if
> your not super careful.
>
> I'll leave this here, and if your really keen to trial HSC to solve your
> problem, i.e. if nothing else does, flip us back and we'll see if we can
> help you. meanwhile, if you are keen, you can download and install the
> hotspotClicker.exe application on your puter, then await further
> instructions.
>
> It doesn't offer any of it's special magic until it's actually, connected,
> to the application in which you want to use it, so should be relatively
> harmless to just install.
>
> let us know what you'd like to do from here.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Geoff C.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Kennedy" <intheshop@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:25 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: writing small script
>
>
>> You probably don't need a script for this.  Just hit the letter B until
>> you
>> hear log out.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "bharatvaya" <bharatvaya@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 10:01 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] writing small script
>>
>>
>> hi I would like to write one small script. there is one bank website in
>> which log out button appears on upper right corner and it's color is red.
>> with help of keyboard it is not accessible. is it possible to write small
>> script to make it accessible? I am using jaws 13 and window 7.
>> I have not written any script before.
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