Jim Snowbarger has developed the tipsheet below on how to use the Paypal
money mail service with Jaws for Windows. On another front, here
in Chicago we are in talks with Bank One, the company behind
Emoneymail.com about the accessibility of its services to the
blind.
Jim Snowbarger has his own Internet radio program. Be sure to
check it out.
Kelly
URL: http://personal.adiis.net/snowman/payhelp.html
This page contains instructions and tips for operating the PayPal
system with Jaws. The edit and combo boxes represented on this page
are not real. They do not operate, but are just text representing what
jaws will speak when you encounter such items.
The PayPal system allows you to use your credit card to pay funds to
another member of PayPal. But, to use it, you must first become a
member yourself. The membership is absolutely free, and will not
obligate you in any way. Nor will your e-mail address be given to
others, other than those to whom you pay money from your PayPal
account.
Because some folks have found the PayPal interface a bit confusing,
here are some tips for operating PayPal with Jaws for windows.
Presently, to become a membr, you must fill out a form which is
somewhat complicated. Worst of all, at the bottom of the form, is a
graphic that contains a security code which can not be read by a
screen reader. To sign up for PayPal, you presently need a sighted
person to read that security code so you can type it into an edit box
as instructed. We are eagerly working with PayPal on this issue.
Some edit boxes are separated from their labels. Apparently, these are
situations where two or more edit boxes appear on the same row, with
labels above each. When seen with the virtual cursor, you read the
labels first, followed by the edit boxes. It is necessary to remember
that the first edit box corresponds to the first label, the second
edit box to the second label etc.
for example, if you are down arrowing with the virtual cursor, and you
see:
First Name
Last Name
edit
edit
You must figure out that the first edit box goes with the "first Name"
label. The second edit box would be for your last name.
Telephone number entries in PayPal are unusual as well. A phone number
is placed in a series of three edit boxes, the first for the area
code, the second for the exchange, and the third for the last four
digits.
You will see something like this:
Work Phone Number
Home Phone Number
edit
edit
edit
edit
edit
edit
That was six edit boxes in a row. The first three correspond to the
work phone, while the last three relate to the home phone. The
international sign up may be slightly different, but the same
principles apply.
If your work number is 212-334-5678, your first three edit boxes are
filled out as:
edit 212
edit 334
edit 5678
Likewise for the last three edit boxes for the home phone.
The address field is typically represented as:
City State Zip Country
Edit
Combo box
edit
Combo Box
US residence will notice that the last combo box is not present, but
the text USA is in it's place.
In the above example, the first edit box is for the City. The combo
box is for choosing the state, The third item, an edit box, is for the
zip code. The last item, combo box, if present, is for the country.
For operating combo boxes, the following procedure works on most web
pages including PayPal:
1. Position the virtual cursor on the combo box.
2. Press enter to activate forms mode.
3. Press alt+DownArrow to open the list of options.
4. Use up and down arrows to select the desired value. Pressing the
first letter will often jump to an item beginning with that letter.
5. Press enter to finalize the selection.
6. Press the grey plus key to activate the virtual cursor and exit
forms mode.
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