Honestly I just use the templates for Word. It comes with some nice
ones and you can get more off Microsoft's Office-addin website. I've
had employment agencies who never really seem to be able to find things
I should change in my resume. I could send you mine for you to edit and
change off list if this would be helpful. The nice thing with a word
template is you can write whatever you want in it and it preserves the
overall layout for you and has much of the fonts and formatting already
done.
Cory
On 28/06/2011 2:38 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
I got the following question from my son. I am suggesting that the person get
Window-Eyes.
Can anyone suggest a good resume program that will work for him?
Since this is a GW Micro List, I am not asking for a resume program that will
work with Jaws. But I am sure that Window-
Eyes has the capability of doing what he wants?
--Bob Ringwald
[email protected]
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Got this question on that forum I hang out on for Q&A. Do you have any
advice for him, including a better forum for him to ask the question?
I can't see my computer screen, and I want to be able to edit my resume.
What Windows-based software would let me control the layout of text on a
page without having to look at it?
I'm blind, so I use my computer with screen reading software called JAWS for
Windows. It's good at reading text out loud, but not so good at saying how
the text is formatted, what fonts are being used, and all those visual
things. Essentially, if it isn't actual text on the screen, I don't hear
about it.
For editing my resume, what I'd like is some sort of program that lets me
enter text into fields, and then does the formatting of the text for me.
Failing that, some sort of text editor which has an option to display the
formatting codes on screen -- something like how they are in html, but with
enough formatting options to make a flashy resume.
I've looked at Easy Resume Creator Pro<http://www.winresume.com/>, which
seemed like it might be just what I need, except it wasn't designed with
accessibility in mind. I can't tab from one field to the next using the
keyboard, for example.
Please give me suggestions.
Does anybody use a database program for their resume? Maybe something like
that would let me apply formatting rules to fields of a particular type. Or,
because web browsers are accessible with speech, some sort of html form that
lets you enter data about your work history and generates a nicely formatted
resume from it could work also.
I'm all ears.
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--Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
Fulton Street Jazz Band
530/ 642-9551 Office
916/ 806-9551 Cell
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