Have a read through the topic in the NVDA group:  Issue with search engine fields and NVDA

Different screen reader, and most likely the same root cause, which does not lie with the screen reader, but with Chromium-based browsers, at least until the bug gets fixed.
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Could there be a setting I need to change in Jaws maybe? Using Jaws 18.

Could there be a setting I need to change in Jaws maybe? Using Jaws 18.

Hi, I’m using Jaws 2022 latest compilation and Microsoft Edge stable channel latest build, and I’m not having this issue.

I would venture myself to say  that it’s probably your old Jaws version.

Best,

Leo Bado

Could there be a setting I need to change in Jaws maybe? Using Jaws 18.

Unfortunately, this is on a work machine. We have a couple of programs that only work with Jaws 18, so upgrading for now is out of the question. It’s very strange, if I tab out of the field and go back it will read what I have typed in, but if I try to use the jaws commands to read word or line or go back or forward, it doesn’t read anything. Nor does anything show up on the braille display. Very strange as I don’t have this problem in explorer.

I’m still running JAWS 2021 on my work laptop and I see this occasionally on some sites, but I’d have to pay more attention to the issue.   There does seem to be some issues with web design on some edit boxes.  A couple things that work for me are to use  insert up arrow to validate what is in the edit box or, if that doesnn’t work or if I’m trying to get to a particular place to edit what is there, I find that using Shift Control arrows to highlight the text will read each word as it is highlighted.  So, if I make a typo in a comment box and want to go edit a word, I’ll go to the beginning, then do the shift Control right arrow to read the text, then when I hear the place I need to change, I’ll stop pressing the control and shift and just hit right or left arrow.  It can still be a guessing game, and if it’s a really long sentence I’m editing, I might just copy and paste into notepad to edit.

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 10:50 AM, Van Lant, Robin wrote:

It can still be a guessing game, and if it’s a really long sentence I’m editing, I might just copy and paste into notepad to edit.

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And let me tell you, blind or sighted, this is an excellent idea for a lot of reasons.

I have learned, the hard way, that you can easily lose everything you've been typing, particularly in webpages, if certain confluences of events occur.  While I wouldn't call these common, they're common enough to give consideration to "in the back of your head" when you find you need to put lengthy text content into an edit box somewhere.

I've even lost messages for groups such as this one that I've been carefully composing over a long period of time when things like my own stupidity in accidentally closing my browser have occurred or other things like a sudden power outage and others.

Composing this sort of stuff in MS-Word or Notepad, then cutting and pasting it in afterward, has saved me a lot of heartache on occasion.  I tend to prefer MS-Word only because of it's auto-backup feature, as that's saved my work (and bacon) on several occasions when the untoward (like a power outage) has occurred.

Often, it really depends on what risks you're willing to shoulder and what pain you're willing to endure if "the unfortunate" occurs.

But when it comes to lengthy text input, I favor doing the composition and editing in a dedicated program and then cutting/copying and pasting it into a web form field afterward.
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Interesting, I’m not seeing this at all with JAWS and Chrome.

All the best

Steve

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Have a read through the topic in the NVDA group:  Issue with search engine fields and NVDA

Different screen reader, and most likely the same root cause, which does not lie with the screen reader, but with Chromium-based browsers, at least until the bug gets fixed.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Friendship. . . Intimacy, untroubled by eros.

         ~ Kim Chernin

Could there be a setting I need to change in Jaws maybe? Using Jaws 18.