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Help with Combo boxs and JFW
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Marion Woods <marion_woods38@...>
Hi all,
I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion |
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Adrian Spratt
Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow.
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That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Mike & Barbara <mb69mach1@...>
Hi Marion,
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After you have made your selection in a combobox, you can also press the PC cursor key to close a combobox. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Spratt To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20111018/0cc37b0a/attachment.html> |
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Marion Woods <marion_woods38@...>
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The trouble is I cant see what I am selecting, as soon as I use the arrow keys it disappears to the next tab before I can see what I have selected. Marion ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69mach1@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi Marion, After you have made your selection in a combobox, you can also press the PC cursor key to close a combobox. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20111018/0cc37b0a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Marion Woods <marion_woods38@...>
Many thanks, I will give it a try,
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From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 5:46 PM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dave...
Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 that
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freezes the combo box to allow arrowing without having the screen dynamically change with each selection? Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Woods" <marion_woods38@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 17:18 Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi, The trouble is I cant see what I am selecting, as soon as I use the arrow keys it disappears to the next tab before I can see what I have selected. Marion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69mach1@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi Marion, After you have made your selection in a combobox, you can also press the PC cursor key to close a combobox. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20111018/0cc37b0a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Kimber Gardner
I don't know about an f8 keystroke, but alt+ down arrow should allow
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you to see the choices without automatically choosing as you arrow through. On 10/19/11, Farfar on Laptop <dgcarlson@...> wrote:
Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 that --
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Adrian Spratt
Dave, it's shift-F8. I've never had occasion to use it, but this is how I
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understand it works: 1. Press shift-F8. 2. Arrow through the choices. To make one or more selections, press spacebar. 3. Exit by pressing shift-F8 again. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Farfar on Laptop Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:53 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 that freezes the combo box to allow arrowing without having the screen dynamically change with each selection? Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion Woods" <marion_woods38@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 17:18 Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi, The trouble is I cant see what I am selecting, as soon as I use the arrow keys it disappears to the next tab before I can see what I have selected. Marion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69mach1@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi Marion, After you have made your selection in a combobox, you can also press the PC cursor key to close a combobox. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? Marion _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201110 18/0cc37b0a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Gerald Levy
Not true. On some combo boxes, pressing Alt-down arrow has no effect. I have encountered combo boxes whose list of choices were impossible to scroll through no matter what keystroke I tried.
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From: "Kimber Gardner" <kimbersinbox1963@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:52 AM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW I don't know about an f8 keystroke, but alt+ down arrow should allow |
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Mike & Barbara <mb69mach1@...>
Hi Dave,
Below are a number of notes that I have saved over the last few years regarding comboboxes. They are from a number of different people, all with their own opinions / ways of dealing with comboboxes. Beginning of Notes; When you're in a multi combo box, (maybe I don't have that term right), and you want to select multiple things, how is that done with Jaws? Sometimes the site will say to select multiple things by holding down the control key, but does that work? Also, what happens if the things you want to select in the combo box aren't listed one after the other? I hope I'm making sense. I can't figure it out for myself, and so figured I would ask here. Any help here is appreciated. Thanks, and take care, Liz After entering Forms Mode, press shift-F8, to open the extended select list. You use spacebar to select your desired items. Hi Liz. To select multiple items in a combobox, hold your control button pressed, and when you are placed om the item you want to select, press your spacebar and continue whith arrowing through the combobox still holding the control button pressed, and select all the items you want. It is only when you hold your shift button pressed, that you select all the following items in the combobox. The control button does that nothing is beeing selected, before you press the spacebar to do so. Hans Pauli. Hi Karen, I think you should know that some combo boxes are created differently, in the sense that the page will sometimes change with the selection highlighted in the combo box, and will sometimes cause Jaws to go out of forms mode. When you do the alt+down arrow command in a dialog box, it opens up the dialog box, and let's you go through the options in the combo box without the page changing, then, when you're ready or have made your selection, you should close the combo box with alt+page up, and, if the combo box is as I described, the page will change to reflect your choice in the box. Victor Subject: [JAWS-Users] Reading links with S, vs down arrowI have 9.0 and XP home. I noticed when reading the list of links on a web page, that when using Subject: [JAWS-Users] Alt+Up/Down-arrow, combo boxes,forms Re: Reading linksthe letter S, to move down the links, that JAWS misses some of the links. with S, vs down arrow I answered your query on s 'same element' question as it relates to JAWS virtual cursor and reading through links. I now choose to answer your current round of combo box related questions. My answer to each question is in parentheses after it. "What is the difference with hitting enter and using the alt. down arrow? It sounds like you have to do both." (You do, usually.) (See your final question and my answer to it.) "Is the alt. down/up arrow like a switch? and one does not have to use this combination when navigating the particular list?" (No. While navigating the list, you use just the arrow keys. Alt+down opens; alt+up closes.) Is a combo box only present for using forms? (Very theoretical, that question. You will need to 'edit' by choosing an item from the combo box. At the moment that requires that you hit the enter key or left-mouse single-click. JAWS interprets this as 'forms mode on'. Flor Lynch Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Reading links with S, vs down arrow A combo box to a sighted user appears as a drop down list that all of the entries appear when they click on the box. they then move the mouse to the entry they want and click again. The box then collapses and the selected entry is shown. In JAWS, first you need to press Enter in the combo box to enter forms mode. Then press Alt down arrow to have the entire list open or "drop down". Use the down and up arrows to select the entry you want. Then press Alt up arrow to close the combo box. Sometimes, a page is designed to change immediately based on their selection as soon as the value is selected. This is a problem for JAWS users in that if you just arrow down through the selection, the page will update immediately on a selection that is probably not desired. To prevent this, you absolutely need to use Alt down arrow to open the list and Alt up arrow to close the combo box. The page will update at this point on these dynamic pages. Don Marang Hello everyone, I was on a web site and I wanted to register, so I hit f for formsSubject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making a selection in a combo box Hi, You never went into forms mode, actually. The f and shift f take you to the next and previous form control. When you are on a control you want to use, press enter. Derek Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making a selection in a combo box Hi, Lisa. Try hitting insert control home to take you to the first form field. Then hit enter to go into forms mode. If you're in a combo box, open the list box with alt down arrow. Once you made your selection, hit alt up arrow to close the list box. That should highlight your selection. I did that today on the Albertsons web site. Hope this helps. Rosemarie Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making a selection in a combo box Sometimes you need to use the combination of Alt and down arrow to open a list in a combo box. Blessings, Tom Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making a selection in a combo box Lisa, another lister provided the following instructions when I asked awhile ago: The way I always try to deal with combo boxes, is to first enter Forms Mode, then alt+DownArrow to open them. Then make your selection by arrowing to it as quickly as possible, (some combo boxes are javascripted so that you are only given a small amount of time - the item is highlighted, then the form thinks you've selected what you've highlighted and automatically moves you to the next stage. Marilyn Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Making a selection in a combo box Hi Lisa, In addition to what has already been said, in my experience, I find it best, after you've used the alt+arrow keys to open the combo box, then arrowed down to your selection, and, upon reaching your choice, it's best to close the combo box with alt+up arrow, as this will complete the selection, and, I'm assuming, will refresh the page to reflect your selection. At that point, once the page refreshes, you can simply press the letter C key for the combo box, and Jaws will take you straight to the combo box, assuming that it's the only one on the page, if it isn't, you can just keep pressing the letter C until you get to the combo box you just made the selection in and continue filling out the form at that point. I do this because sometimes the author of the webpage doesn't take us into account, and the fact that we have to arrow through the selections so we can hear what they are, so if we press tab to go to the next form field, the combo box will sometimes not make the change we want, and stay on the original selection, at which point, we have to go back to the combo box, and redo the selection. This way, I know it's made properly and I'm not putting my fate in the hands of someone who failed to take us blind folks into account. Smile. Victor From: Lisa Belville Try opening it by first turning forms mode on and then using Alt plus down arrow. You should hear something about the combo box being open. Now arrow down to the choice you want. If it's the type of combo box I'm thinking of, you can just press tab to move away from that box and it should open the page with whatever choice you selected. Constipated accountants work it out with a pencil. Lisa Belville missktlab1217@... From: Hans Pauli Sundstein Hi Dale, and any one on list, that has trubble's with the combo boxes. I have visited the webpage that you linked to, and have tryed out the combo boxes there, and there are two different ways to work, whether you are using Jaws 10 - 11, or earlyer version's. Well, if someone have disabled the autoforms mode in Jaws 10 - 11, than it work's just as in the earlyer version's. So let me begin with the older versions: When getting to a combobox, press enter, to activate the forms mode. Than press alt+down arrow to open the listbox, and then arrow down through the combobox. You can also use first letter to jump to a particular letter, and than use the arrow key's to find what you are searching for. Now press alt+up arrow, to close the listbox, and often the webpage automatically click's here, otherwise, tab to a button that can be named go or search or something else, and press enter here. On webpage's where there are multiple of comboboxes, you sirtainly need's to make your selection's in any one, before selecting the go/search ... button. When you have activated the form's mode in the earlyer version's of Jaws, you only can tab through the fields on the page, and if you want to read anything of the text information between the field's, you must press the pc cursor bbutton, to leave the forms mode, and come back to the virtual cursor. When you then again meet's a combobox, you must again activate the forms mode, by pressing enter. In Jaws 10 - 11 there are an automatic forms mode, that gives a sound, when the cursor are placed on a combobox. Here just press spacebar, to select the combobox, and than alt+down arrow, and just continue as described above. When there are pressed alt+up arrow to close the listbox, the combobox automatically are left, and you can continue to arrow down the page, or tab, just as you want your self. I hope that this advice can be helpful to someone. Hans Pauli. End Of Notes: Hope something in these notes has nhelped all or some of you. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Farfar on Laptop To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 that freezes the combo box to allow arrowing without having the screen dynamically change with each selection? Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion Woods" <marion_woods38@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 17:18 Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi, The trouble is I cant see what I am selecting, as soon as I use the arrow keys it disappears to the next tab before I can see what I have selected. Marion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69mach1@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi Marion, After you have made your selection in a combobox, you can also press the PC cursor key to close a combobox. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Try this. When entering the combo box, press enter, then alt-down arrow. That should fix the choices in place so that you can arrow up and down without losing them. To exit, press alt-up arrow at your selection. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Marion Woods Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:33 AM To: JFW JAWS List Subject: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi all, I am running Windows XP. Can anyone help with a problem I'm having using the Combo box in the speech setting for selecting the default Sappie5 voice. The box only displays the current selected voice, in my case the fifth of a list of eight, if I use the up and down arrows to change the selection, it's hit and miss to guess which one I land on until I tab back to the beginning and start again. I run other programmes that use an identical box without this problem, am I doing something wrong? 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Gerald Levy
Does this keystroke work with all versions of JAWS?
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Gerald ----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:03 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Dave, it's shift-F8. I've never had occasion to use it, but this is how I |
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Tom Lange
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I'm jumping in really late on this one so perhaps it's already been mentioned. F8 was and may still be used for multi-selection list boxes. The keystroke that you want for the combo box is alt+down arrow, which exposes the list contents associated with the combo box. After you do that, select the item that you want. Then, to close that list and freeze your selection in place, do an alt+up arrow and tab off of the control. Hope this helps. Tom ----- Original Message -----
From: "Farfar on Laptop" <dgcarlson@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 that |
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Tom Lange
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Yes, right. But, if you have to press alt+down arrow to expost the list and get it to stand still, it's a good idea to use alt+up arrow to close that list and make your selection stick. Tom ----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimber Gardner" <kimbersinbox1963@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:52 AM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW I don't know about an f8 keystroke, but alt+ down arrow should allow |
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Adrian Spratt
Gerald, as I indicated, I've never used this keystroke, but it sounds more
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like an MS command than one created by JAWS. No doubt someone will inform us. Meanwhile, I see from Mike's post that the instructions I gave should be extended, so I'll try again. 1. Press enter to go into forms mode. 2. Press shift-F8 to keep the options steady. 3. Hold down the control key, then press spacebar for every selection you make. If you want to select all the choices from a certain point, either the beginning or a selection further down the list, press the shift key. 4. When you have completed the selections, release the control key and press shift-F8 to exit. I hope this is an accurate summary of this procedure. When encountering this kind of drop-down list, I would first try the alt-down arrow method, as follows: 1. Press enter to go into forms mode. 2. Press alt-down arrow to keep the choices steady. 3. Arrow up and down through the choices. In this method, the assumption is that only one item will be selected, such as the name of your state in a list of all states and Canadian provinces. 4. When you land on the selection you want to make, press alt-up arrow to exit and preserve that choice. If this method doesn't work on a combo box or drop-down list, try shift-F8. -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:39 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Does this keystroke work with all versions of JAWS? Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:03 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Dave, it's shift-F8. I've never had occasion to use it, but this is how I<http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201110 18/0cc37b0a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Dave...
Okay,
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After reading all the messages, anyone like to give us a concise description of the differences between a combo box and a multi-selection list box, and perhaps point to an example of each somewhere? Perhaps there are examples on the Surf's Up web page at FS? Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lange" <lange85@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 05:21 Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Hi, I'm jumping in really late on this one so perhaps it's already been mentioned. F8 was and may still be used for multi-selection list boxes. The keystroke that you want for the combo box is alt+down arrow, which exposes the list contents associated with the combo box. After you do that, select the item that you want. Then, to close that list and freeze your selection in place, do an alt+up arrow and tab off of the control. Hope this helps. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Farfar on Laptop" <dgcarlson@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Someone jump in and help me here. Isn't there a keystroke involving F8 _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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Debbie Kessler
The key strokes described are computer ones, not JAWS.
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Debbie, Chaz & Jessie e-mail: jessesgirl@... ----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@...> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:38 AM Subject: Re: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Does this keystroke work with all versions of JAWS? Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@...> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <jfw@...> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:03 AM Subject: RE: Help with Combo boxs and JFW Dave, it's shift-F8. I've never had occasion to use it, but this is how I _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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