Hi Roger. Yes, this was my conclusion as well. I personally feel this particular implementation of keyboard shortcuts is great, and spoke very enthusiastically about them to the developers. Now I realise I should probably have done so with more caution. They are great, but they may not work for everyone.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Roger Newell Sent: March 2, 2018 4:19 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard shortcuts on webpages not working Some web accessibility professionals discourage using keyboard shortcuts because browsers, screen readers and operating systems interpret them in different ways. My personal belief is to keep them there, but to make sure that there are other ways of choosing the options if this is possible. On 3/2/18, JM Casey <crystallo...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > Hi everyone. Forgive the half-formed inquiry, but I'm about to have a > meeting about this and I don't yet have a lot of info. There's a > website being designed where the user can rate a series of statements > on a numerical scale. The creators of the site designed it so that you > can do this directly from the keyboard by using ctrl-key combinations > from 1 to 5. So, for example, the user might see a statement, and > press ctrl-3 to give that statement a rating of 3. Once the key > bombination is pressed, the next statement loads. This is something I > have tested and works fine in both Firefox and Chrome using JAWS 18. > However, one of the testers is having problems. The keyboard combos do > not work at all. She is a JAWS user. I do not yet know what browser > she is using, but I'll shortly find out. I looked a little at a page > describing how one can use JAVA to do this when developing a site, but > I myself am not a developer, and there's a lot I could be missing. So, > in brief, does anyone know if there are any caveats, prerequisites and > such, for these sorts of shortcuts on websites to work? > Is > there some setting in either a browser, or even in JAWS, related to > this functionality that she might have to change? I know it's not > presently a lot of info to go on, but any help would be appreciated > nonetheless. Thank you. > > > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
