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. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
