Scott, There are four ways negative numbers can be displayed. It sounds like on your worksheet you have the second option, which displays them in red. As far as I can work out JAWS won't ever tell you this colour information. However, the fourth way to display negative numbers is in red and with a minus sign before; JAWS still won't read the colour but it will read the minus sign. Would that work?
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barr Sent: 14 March 2008 18:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Microsoft Excel, negative numbers, red text,jaws does not differentiate I am trying to get jaws to acknowledge negative numbers in an Excel worksheet set up for accounting. my school/Professor requires that negative numbers are displayed as red text. This works fine for someone with good vision but sucks for the VI'd. I can get the actual value by using the edit key (F2) but this is impractical on a sheet that has hundreds or thousands of entries. I've tried changing some settings with configuration manager without any success. set options > speech and sounds manager select scheme: colors I select foreground color red to be read with a different voice. Does not make any change to the output audio. any ideas? thanks ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- DISCLAIMER: NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. RNIB endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RNIB. RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - www.blackspider.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
