[nabs-l] problem with jaws 11 and edit boxes

Arielle Silverman nabs.president at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 17:00:27 UTC 2010


Hi Cindy,

I press the "PC Cursor" button which exits forms mode. What is
happening is that JAWS is automatically bouncing into forms mode
whenever it sees an edit box. So PC-Cursor should fix this.

Arielle

On 1/16/10, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, i had tried all of these things. I think it is mainly an issue
> with jaws and facebook, so i turned off the automatic forms  mode for
> that site.
>
> Thanks though.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 1/14/10, Teal Bloodworth <tealbloodworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> try pushing escape when you want to get out of the edit box. this should
>> turn off virtual cursor or you could always try to shift tab until you
>> hear
>> the noise indicating you have entered or left a form field.
>>
>>             -teal
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Asociation of Blind Students" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:52 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] problem with jaws 11 and edit boxes
>>
>>
>>>I recently upgraded to JAWS 11 and noticed this problem consistently
>>> occurring after installing it. Sometimes when i enter edit boxes, this
>>> occurs more often on facebook but other sites as well, i cannot get
>>> out of it no matter what i do. I end up having to close the browser
>>> and sometimes shut down my computer. This is frustrating, so is anyone
>>> else experiencing this? Is there an update perhaps?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
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Arielle Silverman
President, National Association of Blind Students
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