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From: priti
Date: Mar 2, 2006 6:30AM


Hi Andrew,

Agreed, but the question still remains their, how does the user come out of forms mode?

In this situation, as a JAWS user myself, I find only two solutions for the problem:
1 To manually turn off forms mode--Numpad Plus on the numeric keypad with Numlock off.
2 Close the window

The user needs to come out of forms mode, right. I have experienced the same problem on other accessible flash examples on the internet.

Examples whereby the user is informed about successfully completing a task after providing the last correct value in the text input field, text is displayed on the screen stating the user about their success. JAWS remains in forms mode, and the user has to manually turn off forms mode to read the up-dated information. What can be the solution for such a situation?

Its been nice to hear from you, hope to hear from you soon this time as well.

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




----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Flash and forms mode


I haven't been clear enough. Staying in forms mode is good in this case. The user just needs to tab to move the focus to the grid to get access to the new info.
awk



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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of priti
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:19 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Flash and forms mode



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
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
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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