Re: Fillable PDF Forms & NVDA
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Gene
The message states that tabbing doesn't work.
If tabbing doesn't work, it is very unlikely that numpad 5 or, what is actually
the correct key, numpad 8, will work. Numpad 8 is the read current
line command. Numpad 5 is the read current word command. You want to
read the line, not a single word.
The only command I know that may be relevant is
NVDA key tab. JAWS key tab does the same thing. It reads the field
you are in. While possible that this will help, I doubt it. but you
can try.
Gene
From: Andre Fisher
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Fillable PDF Forms & NVDA On 4/25/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote: > I could be completely confused, misremembering something, or, well, > something else, but I could swear that I remember there being an NVDA > command that one could use to get the name of the field you've landed in > when working with a fillable PDF. > > I was just trying out the IRS Form 1040 from the 2015 tax year, and could > swear that at one point I saw somebody hitting a specific keyboard shortcut > to get NVDA to announce the form field you'd landed in, e.g., last name, > first name, etc. In fact, I seem to recall seeing NVDA (or maybe it was > JAWS) announcing the name of the form field you were landing in as you > tabbed through a fillable PDF form as you tabbed through it. > > Tonight I'm only getting "blank" when I land in a fillable field and I can > tell I'm in focus mode when I land in it and am able to shift to browse mode > via NVDA+Spacebar, but can't get any further in getting the field name > announced then. > > Is there a way to get the name of the field that you're supposed to be > filling in announced so that you know what you should be typing? [I realize > this can't work if the form wasn't designed with accessibility in mind, but > I thought the federal tax forms that you download from the IRS website had > been so for some years now.] > > Brian > -- > The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he > knows to be idiots. > ~ H.L. Mencken >
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