[gui-talk] Combo boxes

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

For combo boxes, whether on web pages or in Windows itself, you should press
Alt-downArrow to open the combo box before using the arrow keys to point at
something.  If you do this, moving out of the combo box will then activate
what you are pointing at.  Using the arrow keys without the Alt-arrow first
causes the combobox control to activate before you are ready for it to do
so.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of davidw
> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:39 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [gui-talk] Combo boxes
> 
> Hello Everyone!
> 
> OK, using jaws 11 and XP.  When I sometimes come across a combo box
> usually
> I just press enter then up or down arrow then press escape when I have the
> selection I desire.  There has been recently on a certain web site a combo
> box that I press enter then when I arrow up or down it selects the one
> that
> Iarrowed to first and won't let me scroll.  Make sense?  OK, how do I
> scroll
> instead of it picking my first up or down scroll?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave