PerfectApps™ Help Guide

Several basic components (simple buttons, lists) of more complex objects may be read by JAWS independently from the parent object. For example, the button of a Date Input object may be detected (and read) by JAWS before the Date Input object itself or after it.

•Text (Text, Small Text, Large Heading, Medium Heading, Small Heading): Accessibility description by default will be the same as text contained in the objects. Users can turn on the Silent property if they don't want JAWS to read it.

•Input texts (Text Input, Multiline Text Input, Numeric Input, Masked Text Input): Accessibility description is set by the app user when filling out the app. When JAWS finds an object of this type it will first read any user-defined accessibility description and then will read input text value. If the Description property is empty, JAWS will only read input text value or “blank” if input text is empty.

•Buttons (Button, Submit Button, Page Button): Accessibility description is set by default to be the same as button’s label (Caption property).

•Picture: Accessibility options are not supported.

•Group and Page: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app.

•Date Input: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. When JAWS is in forms mode, user can only set the date by typing into date input control’s text input.

•Captcha: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. JAWS also reads the CAPTCHA's value.

•Progress Bar: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. JAWS only reads progress bar’s value once.

•Time Input: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. Hours, Minutes, Seconds sub-components have default description (“Hours <value>” for the hours text input, “Minutes <value>” for the minutes text input, “Seconds <value>” for the seconds input, where <value> is the time input’s value.

•Drop-Down: Accessibility description is the default one. JAWS reads the selected item.

•Numeric Stepper: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. User must type the value for the numeric stepper, not change it using Up/Down buttons.

•File Attachment: For security reasons, this object cannot be manipulated only by using the keyboard, so accessibility description is not supported.

•Separators (Vertical Separator, Horizontal Separator): Accessibility description is not supported because these are only simple graphical elements.

•Table: Accessibility description should be the default one, but accessibility is not fully functional.

•Cross Tab: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This object has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“<c 1> <r 1> <value>   <c 1> <r 2><value> … <c 1><r n> <value> …”, where <c 1> is the header of column 1, <r 1> is the label of row 1, <value> is the value of cell at column 1 and row 1.

•Reporting Grids (Data Grid and Data List): Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This objects have default descriptions. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Column <index> Header <header> Values <value 1> <value 2> …”, where <index> is column’s index, <header> is column’s header and <value 1>, <value 2> … are column’s values.

•Gauge: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This object has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Minimum value is <min_val> maximum value is <max_val> selected value is <selected_val>”, where <min_val> is the minimum value, <max_val> is the maximum value, <selected_val> is the selected value of the Gauge control.

•Pie Chart: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This object has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Element <index> Label <label> value <value> (<percents> %) ...”, where <index> is element’s index, <label> is element’s label, <value> is element’s value and <percents> is the percents of the value from the total elements values.

•Bar Chart: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This object has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Bar <index> Label <label> value <value> …”, where <index> is bar’s index, <label> is bar’s label and <value> is bar’s value.

•Line Chart: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This object has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Element <index> Label <label> value <value> ... “, where <index> is element’s index, <label> is element’s label and <value> is element’s value.

•Value: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. JAWS also reads the value of the control.

•Filter Selector: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app. This control also has a default description. JAWS reads user defined description first and then the default description as follows:

“Elements <element 1> <element 2><element 3>  ...”, where <element 1>, <element 2>, <element 3> are filter’s list elements.

•Filter Selector: Accessibility Description property is set by the app creator when designing the app.