Hi Jim, I think you're right, but wanted to mention a couple of points:
First, I think it's Word which is so slow, not the screen reader. I work with many sighted users as they do things in Word, and they make very similar comments about their experiences with Word. Next, there are better ways to move around a Word document other than just holding down an arrow key and waiting until you get there. Third, part of the issue is that we all want WE to be able to tell us anything and everything about a Word document as we move around: we want to know about colors, and spacing, and shading, and font size changes, and footnotes, etc. And because of our need to know all this, WE has to check for *all* of this, on each and every key movement, so that it can tell us. That's why I mentioned there are better ways to move around; holding down an arrow key forces WE to make all these checks hundreds if not thousands of times. If you just search, or use keys to move by paragraph or page, you can greatly reduce the amount of work WE has to do. I don't mean you shouldn't let GW know of your difficulties, just have some understanding if things can't work as you would like; in part it's because they are trying to meet the needs of everyone. Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: James Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Cursoring still sluggish in Word 2010 ribbon and recent docs list > > Hi > > Moving around in the ribbon and in the recent documents list in Word > 2010 is still sluggish when either holding down the arrow keys or pressing > them fairly rapidly. It's like the keystrokes get buffered and you have to > wait a certain amount of time for the key strokes to clear the buffer. Things > are OK if you allow time between each press of an arrow key. > > This was also true in Beta 1. Turning off all aps does not change the > behavior. > > Office 2010, WE beta 2 and Windows 7 64 bit. > > Jim Roberts > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. > If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to > GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to gw- > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
