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Re: form input field with Browse button (type="file")

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jan 7, 2003 11:51AM

The "browse to file" control can be read with JAWS, but the user needs to
know how and needs to know that they are interacting with a control of this
type.

JAWS will read the first part of this two part control. If you move down
the page, the edit box part of the control is read and the next tab stop is
the browse button, for which nothing is spoken. If you tab backwards,
however, the browse button is read and the next tab stop is the edit field,
for which nothing is read.

_Far_ from ideal, but it is possible.

AWK

On 1/7/03 1:33 PM, "Carol Foster" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks for the helpful replies on this! A bit more info: I tried this out in
> Internet Explorer 5.5/Win2000 without JAWS, but using just the keyboard.
> Again I could tab to the Browse button, but "enter" had no effect. This
> seemed odd, so I tried some other possibilities. I tried the space bar and
> presto - I got the file access box! So, back to JAWS: the space bar works
> there too (in forms mode). (I had just tried "enter" before, and got a
> "ding". Still the "Browse" text is not read, so it's not great.
> But maybe the input box to type in the file location is a reasonable
> alternative.
>
> Carol
>
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