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JAWS reading order of forms edit fields.

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Registered: Jan 6 2011
Posts: 27

Hello, I am having an Adobe issue when using LiveCycle. I'm working from a form that has item descriptions and corresponding fill-in-the-blank fields. My end goal is to have JAWS navigate to the first question, read it, then the next arrow-down should place it on the edit form field so they can type in the information.
 
My issue happen while I'm adjusting the order panel under the touch up read order tool. I am tagging the question text as "text" and the edit form fields as "form" so that they correspond with each other.
 
However, Adobe seems to want to combine the edit form fields as one zone; therefore I cannot place the question text in between the form fields so that JAWS will bounce back and forth between question text and edit form field.
 
Can anyone explain how I can tag these form fields separately? Adobe keeps merging the form fields as one. Thank you.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.4.3, Windows
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Hi,

I'm not familar with JAWS but I know that, if the forms are dynamic you cannot use the read out loud functions.
Reasons are described here

radzmar
LoveCycle Blog
Documents you need:
LiveCycle Designer ES2 Docs