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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Jul 8, 2016 5:06AM

Hi Watson,
Thank you for the valuable reference about the screen reader interaction
modes.

https://www.aa.com/international/internationalSplashAccess.do?countryCodeForIP=IN


As I am core user of NVDA, I never faced an issue like what I described.
Now consider the above link and I have used the combination IE11/JAWS 17 to
navigate through the page. What I found is, when virtual pc cursor is "on"
jaws is announcing only the selected list item in the "select your country
of residence" combobox. But when it is "off", observe jaws starts
announcing all the list items present in combobox followed by selected item
as soon as we focus to combobox. I have seen this type of behaviour in many
cases.

If we take the same scenario with NVDA, the result is same in both normal
and forms mode. NVda starts announcing all the list items in the combobox.

My question is whether I can raise bug about what happened in JAWS when
virtual pc cursor is "off" in the scenario. If That is the case, we have to
test application in both the modes. Also I have a doubt where we can take
the full advantage of forms mode.
Thank you.

Regards,
venkatesh.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Vemaarapu Venkatesh <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Watson,
> Thank you for the valuable reference about the screen reader interaction
> modes.
>
>
> https://www.aa.com/international/internationalSplashAccess.do?countryCodeForIP=IN
>
> As I am core user of NVDA, I never faced an issue like what I described.
> Now consider the above link and I have used the combination IE11/JAWS 17 to
> navigate through the page. What I found is, when virtual pc cursor is "on"
> jaws is announcing only the selected list item in the "select your country
> of residence" combobox. But when it is "off", observe jaws starts
> announcing all the list items present in combobox followed by selected item
> as soon as we focus to combobox. I have seen this type of behaviour in many
> cases.
>
> If we take the same scenario with NVDA, the result is same in both normal
> and forms mode. NVda starts announcing all the list items in the combobox.
>
> My question is whether I can raise bug about what happened in JAWS when
> virtual pc cursor is "off" in the scenario. If That is the case, we have to
> test application in both the modes. Also I have a doubt where we can take
> the full advantage of forms mode.
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> venkatesh.
>