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Re: change in forms mode behaviour in JAWS 12

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From: David Farough
Date: Dec 12, 2011 8:51AM

Hi Carin:
I see your problem and have a suggestion.

This problem seems to occur when your verbosity settings are set to
either beginner mode or intermediate.

Therefore an easy but unnecessarily drastic solution would be to set
your verbosity level to Advanced verbosity for that site.

Another solution would be to configure the individual verbosity
settings in beginner or intermediate modes to uncheck the control group
name setting for that level. This might potentially cause you grief in
some forms that use fieldsets to identify groupings of fields. This
however will have the benefit of changing jaws behaviour in a minimal
way.

If you need further clarification and or instructions, feel free to
contact me directly. My information appears below.
If you think anyone on Blindtech would be interested, feel free to
forward this.

Incidentally if getting Jaws13 is an option, this behaviour has been
reduced. Now when you tab between fields, Jaws now speaks "landmark
region" before each field. At least it's moving in the right
direction.


David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779 >>> CARIN HEADRICK
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > 09:34 AM Monday, December 12, 2011 >>>
I've noticed something that started new in JAWS 12 and hoped some
genius here might have a solution. If you're in forms mode and are
tabbing between fields, JAWS 12 has become uber chatty, reading all the
way down from the main landmark to where you are, rather than just
reading the bleeping form label. I've seen this on 3 separate machines
with 3 separate versions of windows.

Don't believe me? zip on over to www.easychirp.com with anything below
JAWS 12. Tab between the username and password fields. Then go there
with JAWS 12 and do the same. You will notice a whole lotta readin'
goin' on that we just don't need. A main landmark has to be present for
this to happen.

So, what the bleep new JAWS setting would govern this and how can I
make it behave like older JAWS? Although I'm usually an arrower rather
than a tabber, there are some circumstances where I'd like to stay in
forms mode thankyaverymuch. This new chatty Kathy style behaviour makes
it hard to do so.


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