Hello,
I would like to seek assistance in solving this accessibility issue I am facing on a regular basis. Using JAWS 13 on a Windows XP machine with Internet Explorer as my browser. There are some pages that require me to choose a start date and end date from a calendar on some webpages. These calendars are not particularly accessible as they are floating calendars, they are invoked by hovering the mouse over a calendar icon on the page. The user then clicks on the date post which the entry is recorded in a edit box which otherwise is not editable. I have attempted several ways to resolve this situation but failed and ended up asking a sighted person to choose the date for me from this monsterous calendar. It has also come to my attention that the calendar allows you to change the month and year from a combo box, again mouse driven totally! I can't get to the combo box by using the quick navigation key C nor can I get to the calendar using the JAWS cursor. The page in question is on an internal tool designed by Oracle corp. for our company. Therefore I can't even share the URL with you all. But if anyone of you have faced this kind of calendar at work or in any other situation on a webpage, can you please share your experience in tackling it? The best thing to do according to me is use sighted assistance or write to Oracle Corp. about it, may not yield immediate results but it's worth the try. The piece of work assigned to me highly depends on this function and this is the only factor that keeps me away from accomplishing it independently. Any thoughts or insights would be highly appreciated. Sincerely, Mujtaba Merchant Bangalore, India Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryu For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
