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Re: change in forms mode behaviour in JAWS 12

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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Dec 12, 2011 12:39PM

Which browsers are you testing on?

Ryan

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, David Farough < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> 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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