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----- Original Message ----- From: wayne smith To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] colored text Insert 5 did the trick. Thanks-I knew it was a good move to hire you guys. Wayne -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike B Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 03:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] colored text Hi Wayne, Have you tried the keystroke, Insert + 5, on the number row? The notes below are for finding colored text in Word but, maybe 1 of them will work in IE. From: Brian Lee First of all, if the yellow in your document is the Word default highlighting color then you can use the find dialog box. You might need to remove protection from the form first. If you have changed the Find command to bring up the Find dialog box instead of the navigation pane then use CTRL with F. Otherwise, use CTRL with H and switch to the Find tab of the dialog. When in the "Find What" edit area tab to see if you have a More button and if so press spacebar. Tab to the Format menu button and use enter key. Use down arrow in the menu and press enter on the "highlight" menu item. Tab to the Find Next button and use spacebar. Use escape to dismiss the dialog box. This should bring the focus to the first yellow highlighting used after your starting point. You can then use CTRL with page down to find subsequent use of the yellow highlighting or CTRL with page up for previous occurrences. If your document contains various foreground colors then you can use the keystroke of Windows key with Alt and I to move forward through the document or add the shift key to move backwards through the document. The keystroke might find other inconsistencies as well but it is one way you can quickly find changes to the foreground color being used in different parts of the document. You can use a skim reading scheme if you know the color to find or you can also use the Word Find box to find the RGB values of the colors. Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net From: Steve Steve, Use your skim reading tool. You first want to define a skim reading tool (control-shift-Jaws Key-Down arrow). You have four radio buttons, select the bottom one which is color and attributes. Now, tab to the color selection combo box and select the color you want. You might need to find the first instance of the blue name in your word doc so you know which shade of blue you need to specify in the attributes box. Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. Steve From: Cy Selfridge Hi, Try insert+numrow 5 to find the color of a particular letter. Cy From: Ann Byrne First, you need to know what color you are searching for. If you know one instance, you can press insert+5 on the numbers row for JAWS to identify the color. Often, though, JAWS does not name the color what Microsoft does, so there's a problem. So. *If you can establish what the color is for Office, jump through these hoops: 1. In Word press control+f for find. 2. Be sure there is no text in the find field. 3. Open the find split button (space bar?) and arrow to advanced find. 4. Press enter, and tab to the find and replace toolbar. 5. Pressing enter on the toolbar gives you a formatting menu. enter on font. 6. Tab to the color group, enter to open it, find your color and press enter. 7. I didn't go farther than that, but I'm sure you have to get to an okay button or two and press it or them. Good luck! Ann From: Adrian Spratt Try JAWS's skim reading. Press shift-control-JAWS key-down arrow to go into a menu of choices. The fourth, or last, enables you to search by color. You can also set up JAWS to identify colors in configuration Manager's "speech and sounds." Adrian From: Marquette, Ed Another option is to switch the voice scheme. JAWS key plus Alt Plus S will announce colors as you read. Well, actually, it will give you a list of reading scheme voices, at least one of which will announce colors. That will allow you to read the entire text and have jaws pick and announce the colors as the cursor moves over the text. The color changes will be announced as you read line-by-line. Be sure you pick a scheme from the list that announces the colors. I think "Classic with Colors" is one of the choices. Ed From: Marquette, Ed The same tip I gave to identify text in colors will work for underlined text. Just press Alt plus JAWS key plus S. Pick a scheme that reads attributes. JAWS will "switch" to that scheme. Turn it off by going back to your preferred scheme which, for me, is classic. Ed From: Farfar Carlson Ed, Good tips, but won't help in a search for text with those attributes. Also I think that in "say all" mode attributes are not spoken, unless there is a speech scheme to do this? It get rather arduous to arrow line-by-line or word-by-word to hear the various attribute changes in a large document. Dave From: Marquette, Ed Dave: You are right. If one is just looking to "find" the underlined text and not necessarily read the text with the underlined text distinguished from the non-underlined text (same is true for colors), the reading scheme won't help at all. The problem with just searching for the text, as Ann suggests, is that it just gets you to the beginning of the text with that color or attribute. I usually like to know when the underlining or color change stops too. I too use the MS Word format search strategy, and I thought you and Ann did a great job of explaining. The Scheme just makes it easy precisely to identify what is and what is not in the target color or attribute once you get there. Perhaps you and/or Ann know this. If the color or underlining feature is applied through a style instead of just through direct formatting, will it still work? Presumably it would since, in any event, the text is in the desired font/attribute. Still, Word can be a little funny about things like that. For instance, if the color or attribute is applied through "track changes," one usually cannot search for double-underline or strikethrough text, even though that is the way added or deleted text actually appears. Ed From: Adrian Spratt I can think of a way to locate the end of color text. First, search for the desired color, and in each instance placed a text marker, such as double asterisk or number sign, each time a passage begins. When that process is complete, return to the first instance of color text. Now change the color to black, or however the regular text appears and search for the instances where it resumes, indicating also that color text ends. Place another text marker at those points. Obviously, if more than one color is used, as happens when several lawyers are involved in negotiating or otherwise drafting a document, other markers would be used for other colors. This process would take a little time at the beginning, but save time in the long run. The risk might be upsetting the original format with the new symbols. In WordPerfect, which I use, that would be easy to fix thanks to reveal codes. I can't speak for MS word, which I try to avoid. Adrian From: "Francisco Salvador Crespo" <crespofranciscosalva...@gmail.com> Has jaws got a comand to read underline text in word? Sorry, my english is very basic Tanks, Francisco From: Farfar Carlson Follow Ann's suggestion but select the font characteristic of underline, rather than a specific color. That might work. Dav Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: wayne smith To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 1:38 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] colored text Hello- I am working on an asignment online where different verb forms are in different colors. I am using Windows 7, JAWS 14 and IE 11. If my cursor is on a word is there a way to determine the color? I tried Insert+f with no results. Wayne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
