I am using jfw 3.3.26, and none of the items on my start menu say either select or checked. At 10:38 AM 6/26/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hello BOB, > >I've never seen this behavior from the start menu, regardless the screen >reader I've used! I have it say "selected" when I hilight an item within >the Start Menu, but never "Checked!" > >The Type code is that of a menu, and the sub-type code is that of a Start >Menu, but the Control Id is "0". If the item can't be checked, then it >must be a graphic that is labeled "Checked", and not the item itself. I >don't even have a graphic that can be labeled--or at least not one that is >consistent with all shortcuts! >Whenever I create a shortcut, or whenever I come across one that an >application installed, I edit it and put a "!" at the end of it--this helps >me distinguish between folders and shortcuts on the Start Menu and Desktop. > >Thanks, >Dennis Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Visit the Blind Programming site at http://www.mindspring.com/~brown99/ > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: BOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 10:54 PM >Subject: Re: help! > > >> Hey, that's a good tip. Has this always been the case and jfw3.3 is the >> first jfw to pick up on it? or is this something new? >> I don't believe this ever worked before jfw3.3. >> Also, how did you find out that that's what the check meant? >> Thanks, >> Bob >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Jackson, Cory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:23 PM >> Subject: Re: help! >> >> >> > When you are pointing to an program group, you will not hear checked, >but >> if >> > you are pointing to a program that will run as soon as enter is pressed >> it >> > will announce that program as being checked. >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Derek Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: JFw list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 4:37 PM >> > Subject: help! >> > >> > >> > > I was errowing through my start menue. And I was getting >announcements >> > like >> > > Outlook express, Checked, Omni 1000 checked. Only certain things were >> > > checked acording to jfw. What is going on? >> > > >> > > >> > > - >> > > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net >> > >> > - >> > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net >> > >> >> - >> Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > >- >Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > > Walter - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
