[Athen] [EXT] Word form fields with JAWS
Karlen Communications
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Tue Apr 2 07:32:56 PDT 2019
But with the old ActiveX/legacy form controls, don't you have to protect
parts of the document to force focus to the form controls?
Cheers, Karen
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It sounds like the designer used the new form field types instead of the
legacy forms. That is my first quick guess. If they can change those to the
legacy forms, JAWS "should" read them fine.
Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
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Good Morning!
Our Graduate School provides MS-Word templates
<https://www.purdue.edu/gradschool/research/thesis/templates.html> for
thesis and dissertation formatting. The templates they created make use of
Word form fields. A JAWS user wants to use a template to write his
dissertation, but says JAWS skips a lot of required fields.
When I opened one of the templates (attached), I found JAWS interacts with
edit fields just fine. However, I'm unable to get it to read combo boxes. It
will announce the name of the combo box, but it won't allow me to open the
list of options to make a selection. I'm not a strong JAWS user. Is there
something I'm doing wrong? Or are these fields just not accessible?
Thanks,
Dean
Dean Brusnighan
Assistive Technology Specialist
Purdue University
765-494-9082
dabrus at purdue.edu <mailto:dabrus at purdue.edu>
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