Below is my response to this question. My mail got hung up in never
never land. I hope the message below is of some use.
Brad
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Subject: Re: working with application mode
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:43:48 -0600
From: Brad Martin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
I very much agree. I've never even really understood what it is, except
that JAWS says I'm in Application mode, and then nothing works as
expected. Here is what I've been able to determine from my limited
experience. This is absolutely nothing official, but it has made
managing "application mode" a little less painful.
Sometimes when I try to read the text in an edit field when I'm in
application mode, nothing works right and I can't hear anything. Often
shift tabbing away from the field, then tabbing back to it will cause it
to act normally.
You see this often with text editors for composing text with rich
formatting. Using it often means highlighting (in the usual way with
shift and arrow keys or control and arrow keys), then exiting forms mode
and finding the formatting button you want (bold, underline, insert
hyperlink, bulleted list, numbered list, etc.)
I think it sometimes works a little better in Internet Explorer,
although I've stumbled through it enough in Firefox that I can do it
there and that's what I do 95% of the time.
Probably not much help, but if you have specific questions, I'll do my
best to answer. I used to absolutely dread hearing the words,
"Application mode on", but I've reached a point of semi-comfortable
resignation now that I've figured out how to use it, even if it's with
some trial and error.
Brad
On 1/31/2016 12:00 PM, Robert Logue wrote:
Can I get some pointers to documentation for working with application
mode and Jaws on web pages?
A search for application mode in the Jaws manual didn't find anything
helpful.
I'm not having much luck using application mode where I find it more
often these days. Standard keyboard navigation just does not
work.Perhaps there are tricks I don't know about.
Bob
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