Multi-tasking
Gregory Nowak
romualt at megsinet.net
Wed Jul 4 15:31:53 EDT 2001
Did you have msaa on or off?
Greg
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:26:34PM -0400, Bruce Noblick wrote:
> The solution of using the alt+down arrow on the web site that Ann mentioned
> did not work with window-eyes 4.1. If it does work with 3.1, perhaps we
> should mention this to GW and see if they can duplicate this possible
> problem.
>
> Enjoy!
> Bruce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Howell" <showell at lrxms.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Multi-tasking
>
>
> >
> > Not sure why a discussion of windows screen readers is here, but let me
> > give you a solution for your self-activating combo boxes. Just hit
> > alt-down arrow when your on the box and it'l keep it from activating. This
> > is piss-poor web design in any case and most sighted users don't much like
> > it either. I am sure that key stroke I mention works under 3.1, but can't
> > recall now.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > Aha. In wineyes, when you're on a combo box,
> > > turn off msaa with ctrl+shift+a, tab again to the combo box
> > > (because you've been moved off of it), and use down/up arrows to select
> what you would like.
> > > Once you've made your selection, hit enter on it.
> > > I've generally found wineyes 3.1 (which is the latest I have here)
> > > to work fine with combo boxes. The only onse it has trouble with are the
> self-activating kind
> > > (the kind that take you right away to the next web page as soon as you
> > > hit an arrow key).
> > > Hope this helps.
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Dave, this is win98, with MSIE 5 and Win-eyes 4.1.
> > > >
> > > > Ann P.
> > > >
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