Hi. An editor wants to use Word 2010's comments to send me her thoughts on a 300-page document. I've never used this feature before. She has sent me a short sample to see if JAWS can read the comments.
After reading a number of posts I saved on the subject from this list and the relevant section in CathyAnne Murtha's textbook, I cannot solve the following problems. I know to bring up comments in context by pressing control+shift+apostrophe. With Windows key+semicolon, I can also create a text file consisting of all the comments. Here are the problems I've identified so far: 1. When reading a comment in context after pressing control+shift+apostrophe, I'd like to navigate it with the arrow keys. However, nothing happens. I can repeat the entire text to my heart's content, but not isolate words and phrases. 2. I can isolate words and phrases when I bring up all the comments in the Win key+semicolon text file. However, this is not ideal for two reasons. First, it will require me to do a lot of cross-referencing between the document's primary text and the comments page I've created. Second, after checking the JAWS text against a sighted person's reading of the text in the printed comments, I find there's additional text in the JAWS version. Additional text might be a smaller problem than less text, but it is distracting and makes me worry that the JAWS version might prove unreliable in other ways. Here's a sample comment. Everything after the peculiar word "extrahat" appears in the JAWS version but not the print original: Here's where a comment would go. My Word program identifies what words in the text this comment is about by coloring them and giving them a number. Extrahat the comments appear in two different places--one, in a list on the left hand sidey coloring them, and giving them a nu 3. All in all, for a JAWS user, this seems a terribly cumbersome process, especially for a 300-page document where there will be comments on nearly every page, as well as strike-through and other attributes. Am I just showing the anxiety of one new to a task? Is there a method that will work better for me and is equally convenient for the editor? I hope I've made myself clear. Thanks especially to Ed Marquette and Jean Menzies for their posts on this topic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140803/42ed91ce/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
