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From: John Goldthwaite
Date: Feb 15, 2002 11:13AM

Is he using Internet Explorer 5? JAWS works much better with IE since it
uses Microsoft Active Accessibility to provide more info JAWS. Does he know
what the keystrokes to use with Explorer are? - those are documented in the
JAWS Help Topics under Popular Applications with JFW. JAWS is programmable
and can have a script for each application program that provides additional
reading functions that are bound to keystroke combinations. For Internet
Explorer, Control-Tab moves from Frame to Frame and Insert-F9 pops up a list
of the frames. The JAWS script for Netscape doesn't have any functions to
handle frames.

I tried using your page with JAWS and it seems to work fairly well. I can
move from frame to frame with no problem. But I did find the sample lesson
had some problems. If I was using the arrow keys to read down the page, I
had to click on the combo boxes to get the focus on them. If I used Tab it
would take me to the combo box and other controls but it did not read the
surrounding text. That meant as you moved with the Tab key you only heard
the type of control and not the text of the question and answer. Using up
and down arrow it reads the question and answer but you have to move across
word by word to find the control and click on it(or use the JAWS keypad /
for left mouse click).