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Re: Inappropriate navigation of buttons

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Feb 24, 2017 2:11AM

1. The standard Windows focus of buttons is tab keys. That is why you are experiencing issues with arrowing through them. Yes, JAWS allows you to arrow through them, but in this case, it doesn't seem like it is working. This could be due to many reasons. I would highly suggest you stick with the Windows and browser standards and use the tab key for those.

2. As far as the virtual cursor, remember that the PC cursor is again a part of the Windows environment. Personally, that was one approach I disliked when Freedom Scientific switched to in order to handle browsers and other Windows applications.

What you are dealing with is the fact that the PC mode is passing everything to the browser agent. Whereas the virtual PC is only passing what freedom scientific coded in their DLL files that handles DOMs. I strongly doubt that this is something you can overcome with coding. The manufacturer has to update their DOM module to allow JAWS to work with the particular browser.

Try using Firefox or Chrome and you may notice that the app mode works better with those.