I wonder if maybe the cells or columns might need to be widen?
Personally, I've never had any issues with jaws doing Excel..
Sometimes though, if a cell or column or row when I refer to cell I mean to
say row, sorry for the confusion. Jaws might not read all of the info if the
row/column isn't widen, or it's been my experience.
Patricia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
Perhaps the font size on the screen is too small for JAWS to read
correctly. I would check the zoom level by pressing F6 until you get to
the status bar. Then Tab until you get to the zoom button and press Enter.
I would think a good mix of the actual font size and magnification level
would allow JAWS to read the cells. Press Insert + F, to determine the
font size used in a pparticular cell.
Don Marang
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From: "Shari" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:02 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
Thank you. I might not have been using the correct formatting in go to.
Will try again. The forms I'm working with are very cumbersome, with lots
of cells and lots of data and text in cells. With Jaws having trouble
reading and navigating, it's hard sometimes to understand the layout well
enough to even know what to select. I've had some challenges with Excel,
but this has definitely been the biggest so far.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Byrne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Excel problems with Jaws
A partial solution is to use goto for selecting text. Either f5 or
control-g gives you the go to dialog box. Then enter what you want to
select. For example if you want to select rows 1 through ten, you would
type f5, then 1:10. You can select contiguous cells, joining them with
colon as above, or non-contiguous cells, joining them with comma.
I would have thought that unloading and reloading JAWS would straighten
things out when you're trying to read, though. Excel is hard for JAWS,
being so densely formatted, but usually unload/reload unscrambles it.
Good luck!
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