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From: priti
Date: Mar 1, 2006 11:20PM


Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the example. But in this example also, when I press 'Spacebar' on the Add to grid button, JAWS remains in forms mode. Surprisingly, When I select the Add to grid button, from the Forms list dialog box--JAWS(Insert+F5), the forms mode is turned off.

Regards,
Priti Rohra
Accessibility Tester
Net Systems Informatics (I) Pvt. Ltd.
India
Tel: 91-22-26860485/6 extn: 28
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Url: www.n-syst.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Flash and forms mode


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

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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