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From: priti
Date: Mar 2, 2006 7:00AM


Hi Andrew,

Ya, It was soon enough...
Thanks a lot for the feedback it was wonderful to share ideas with you.

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 7:11 PM
Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Flash and forms mode


Priti,
Agreed, but the question still remains their, how does the user come out of forms mode?
It may be necessary to do so manually in some cases, as you've indicated. I would regard this as undesireable and would encourage developers to test their applications with screen reader users to help reduce this need.
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?
It depends on how the information is presented. If enough of the content tree is changed then forms mode may go off without directing JAWS to do so. There are additional components that can help here also - if you use an alert component for example, you can bring this into the application to provide the messaging and it may not be necessary for the user to leave forms mode to complete the task.

It sounds like you are building a web application rather than what many people think of when they think of a flash movie. In Flash applications it is desireable to be in forms mode almost all the time.
Its been nice to hear from you, hope to hear from you soon this time as well.
Soon enough?

AWK


Andrew Kirkpatrick
Accessibility Engineer
Adobe Systems
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