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JAWS and course menu... arrows not navigating menu when using JAWS
It's been a while since I used a course menu, but I swear this used to work. When I'm not running JAWS, I can TAB to the menu and navigate through the items using the arrow keys. When JAWS (2018 or 2021) is turned on, though, the arrow keys do not do anything.
Any guidance here?
Hi Erich!
Great question! The Menu button on the player opens a list of Menu items. You'll want to tab to the first item in the Menu and then use the up/down arrows to navigate through the list of slides. Here's a quick demo of what to expect.
Thanks for the response, Lauren.
I'll share that I'm using a drop-down menu and the classic player: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/fd8ee051-7792-41b4-a8b8-3260f9cd7cce/review. That functions a bit different than the persistent menu in the modern player you demonstrated. My fault for not specifying my environment.
I was still having problems until a user in a different discussion thread suggested I use SHIFT-Space when selecting the menu and that seemed to work. Mark Klosowski mentioned that my problem might be related to having menu items from different scenes in my menu and filed a bug report.
Hope this can help someone else.
Hi! How does a JAWS user escape from the menu?
Hi Darya!
It sounds like you had some questions about navigating through course elements while using the JAWS screen reader. I'd be happy to share some insight on that!
Just to clarify, you are trying to escape from the Menu button and select other elements from the course player? If so, the best option for that would be using the Tab key. Clicking the Tab key once moves the learner forward through interactive elements on the screen, and holding Shift + Tab moves them back to the previous element.
Also, could you confirm which version of JAWS you are currently using? Testing this out on my end (with JAWS 2023) I was able to easily navigate away from the Menu button, to my list of slides, and then back. Here's a quick peek showing my results!
Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions!
