Hi Adrian, In order to edit and therefore read a comment I usually have to use the arrow keys and move by character through the text where the comment has been inserted. As with many of these functions it's a little flaky but what seems to work best is arrowing until you here "out of commented text" then back arrow once. Now route the jaws cursor to the pc cursor and right click. This should open a menu that will allow you to edit, delete or insert a comment. I find the escape key works most consistently to get me out of the comment and back to my document.
I'm pasting below my instructions for finding color highlighting. This function is also rather quirky, but I think that is an ms word bug rather than a jaws oddity as my sighted husband has issues with it as well. * To find highlights in a document: Press control+H to open the find dialogue. Click the find what field. Activate the more button then tab to format and arrow down to highlight. Press enter. The critical piece seems to be to click the find what field before activating the highlight button. I hope this works for you. Remember, be persistent. It does work but requires patience. Kimber On 8/3/14, Adrian Spratt via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
