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. > > > > -- > > Ann K. Parsons > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
