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Re: Firefox/NVDA: ENTER on button opens browser context menu

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From: Mallory
Date: Sep 22, 2018 3:10AM

Hoi Johannes,
If you are browsing to a button and NVDA isn't passing on your Enter event, and if you personally don't want to have to tab to it, I would think manually switching to the forms mode with NVDA+space would save you some extra keystrokes (maybe).

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Fischer, Johannes wrote:
> Hi Detlev,
>
> just an idea because it's not clear from your text: Did you go through
> the page by using Tab key or by arrow keys (browsing) when NVDA is on?
> By using the arrow keys a drop-down doesn't work for me as well (Firefox
> 62.0, NVDA 2018.1.1), even not with ALT + Enter. But by using the Tab
> key I can focus the drop-down and change the value with the arrow keys.
>
> Best regards,
> Johannes
>
> Johannes Fischer
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