Better still, press alt+DownArrow to open the Combo Box before pressing
enter. This will give a few seconds' hold before some bad javascript
may kick in.
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] problem with reading combo boxes
> Enter on the combo box and press alt+down arrow to "open" the box.
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> On 26/06/2010 22:13, Lisa McManus wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a question about combo boxes. I use window eyes, but since it
>> is the weekend I can not call gw micro.
>>
>> To read through by arrowing down in a combo box you turn the msa mode
>> off. On many websites when you arrow down once it takes off to the
>> next page without letting you proceed down through the list, but then
>> you just find the combo box again on the page and turn the mode off
>> and arrow down one more time to the next item. You continue this
>> process until you find what you want. On this particular website I
>> am having problems with though when you arrow down once in the box it
>> takes off, but does not give you the box again on the next page. So
>> in order to see the other items I tried to back out, but I couldn't
>> get that combo box back. I was wondering if anyone on here who uses
>> window eyes could tell me if there was a way to see all the items in
>> the combo box without it taking off to the next page until you choose
>> the item you want. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much.
>>
>> Lisa
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