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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mar 1, 2006 4:20AM

Prithi,

Thanks for the information, but we have enabled the
accessibility of the Data Grid component. This is not the case, I have
encountered the same problem with different flash presentations. Even in
the case of flash presentations, wherein the user has to input data in
the Text Input field and press 'ENTER', Jaws continues to remain in
forms mode and does not read the information updated on the screen.

It does in my quick example:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/formsmode/datagrid_
formsmode.html
<http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/formsmode/datagrid
_formsmode.html>

You can get the source at:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/formsmode/datagrid_
formsmode.fla (Opens in Flash 8)

After you hit "space" on the 'add to grid' button, tab to the grid.
JAWS will read "listbox" (that's what a datagrid is) and you can arrow
down through the rows, including the new one.

Let me know how it goes.
AWK



Andrew Kirkpatrick
Accessibility Engineer
Adobe Systems
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