On Monday, August 5th at 4:44 P.M. Ed Marquette wrote: All of this is helpful. I think there was one error, however. To access the quick access toolbar, one uses the old key plus the numbers on the number row. So, Ed, what exactly is the "old Key?" -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Marquette via Jfw Sent: August-04-14 4:42 PM To: Kimber Gardner; The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: JAWS and MS Word 2010 comments
All of this is helpful. I think there was one error, however. To access the quick access toolbar, one uses the old key plus the numbers on the number row. The big problem is exiting comments. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Kimber Gardner via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > I feel your pain as I regularly do the comment swap with my own > editors and it is a pain in the butt. > > As Doug said, editing the comment is the only way I know to move > through the text of a comment by words or characters. I wish there > were a more efficient way but alas there isn't. > > As for accessing and reading the comments themselves, there are times > when I prefer the ms word functions for previous and next to the jaws > method. The most efficient way to utilize the ms word previous and > next comment functions is to place them on the quick access toolbar > which you can then access via the control key and one of the keys in > the numbers row on the keyboard. > > Another helpful tip is to set up jaws to use one of the proofing sound > schemes. I can't recall exactly which one I use, but will figure it > out and get back to you if you'd like. > > In my case, my line editors use color coding to indicate various types > of editing, like green for repetitions and pink for unnecessary words. > If you have a need to know which words have been colored, the best way > to do this is with the ms word find highlight function. I can provide > instructions for this too if need be. > > That's all I can think of right now. Let me know if you need more > details and I will do my best to help. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
