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Janina Sajka wrote:

> Since this literally a popup box in the
> middle of other text already displayed from the page, you'll need to
> learn to ignore the "background words" that Speakup will read out. These
> will surround the selection option, both before and after it. Speakup
> isn't given any programmatic basis to ignore background text. This is
> one place where graphical browsers have an edge over Speakup and Lynx,
> but a little practice will probably suffice for working with drop downs.

I notice that more recent versions of Speakup have highlight as a cursor 
tracking option.  Does this cope with the option box problem?  I don't have 
a new enough version on my machine so haven't tested it.

Geoff.