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Re: Clarification on forms mode of screen readers

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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Jul 8, 2016 12:32PM

Thank you to Jason and Watson for the exciting stuff.
you are right Watson, I am doing it manually using JAWS key+Z.

At the end of the day what I want to know is,
As I am encountered with these type of issues (especially IE/JAWS) across
many apps, how I should proceed with my testing. Whether I have to carry
testing in both normal and forms mode or we should consider only default
i.e. normal mode.
And the other one is "When we should use the forms mode and what is the use
of it".

Hope my two concerns are clear.

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.
>