this is not a jaws problem.  it is a page design problem which uses an
unnecessary pop up in the first place.

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From: "Jim Rebman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: What is the problem with accessible pop-up windows?


automatically opens a popup window. So far so good, the person enters
the
necessary information, closes the popup and often times when they are
dropped back into the initial form and hit tab or any key JAWS takes
them
back to the top of that window. Ok, tab tab tab ... and when they come
to
that field, guess what happens, it pops open again. They can not tab
through to get to the next field.

The few extremely rare times I have encountered this kind of behavior I
have been able to bypass the offending control by reverting to virtual
PC
cursor mode -- temporarily getting out of forms mode until I'm past the
control.  If that didn't work (and it did many times) the next strategy
was
to again get out of forms mode then use the jaws search to move the
cursor
directly to the next control.  Really though, this is a JAWS problem in
that it should not take you to the top of the page after leaving a form
control (one of the many things they and Microsoft have yet to work on).
>>>>

Second issue: in some websites as soon as you close one popup another
opens, followed by several in succession.

Yes, and this exactly what the popup stopper software I mentioned will
prevent.  One web site I was redirected to not only popped up several
*dozen* windows, but one of them had the audacity to make itself my
default
home page.


Dennis' point is well taken though -- this is not just about blind
users.

-- Jim

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Jim Rebman

Center for Life-Long Learning and Design
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado, Boulder

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