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Re: NVDA forms mode?

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From: Angela French
Date: May 17, 2013 12:00PM


Thanks!
Angela French

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>Hello,
>There are a couple of settings in the browse mode settings that might help if you
>uncheck them.
>1. Press NVDA + N to go into NVDA"s menu.
>2. Arrow down till you get to the preferences sub menu and enter this sub-
>menu.
>3. Arrow to the browse mode settings or use the mouse to click on it.
>4. Once in this dialog, look for the two preferences relating to
>automatic focus mode and uncheck them.
>This should help.
>
>Greg Wocher
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>On 5/17/2013 12:28 PM, Angela French wrote:
>> I am trying to test with NVDA. When I come to a page with text on a page that
>precedes a form, the focus goes right into the first form element missing the
>instructions that are on the page. Does NVDA go into some sort of forms mode
>by default when it sees a form on the page? Is there a way to have it not do
>that?
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>> Angela French
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