The one below is quick keys on-off. For Word the default is off. As for the Win-;, I'd never used that, but it could prove really handy. Wonder if it works for footnotes. Incidentally, neither combination is unique to 16, in case others on the list want to play around.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Ford via Jfw Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:57 PM To: Artur Räpp; The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: [AccessSTEM] Help with study on helping blind persons independently format documents There is a JAWS command, Windows key plus ;, and that brings up a box with four choices, revisions being one of them. Press enter, and JAWS sets up a very handy list box separately showing each revision. Each has a link that takes you directly to that portion of the document. This is probably the same as that described below, the only difference being how you get to that point. -----Original Message----- From: Artur Räppvia Jfw Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 7:35 PM To: 'Gudrun Brunot' ; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: [AccessSTEM] Help with study on helpingblind persons independently format documents Hello I use JAWS quick keys for track changes (jaws key+z, then r) With this command I can move from one change to an other and JAWS reads it. HTH Artur -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gudrun Brunot via Jfw Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 11:47 PM To: 'Hamid Hamraz'; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: [AccessSTEM] Help with study on helping blind persons independently format documents Dear Lourdes: This is such a valuable endeavor. I have hair-raising examples I could sent you, only, it would be illegal. I am a translator, and I occasionally get assignments that involve working with track changes. We're not just talking about someone deleting something that I wrote and replaced it with another word. I'm talking about a text that another person generated. The document was then translated. The originator decided to make changes to the original. This revised document was submitted to the translator, so he would apply the changes to the second version of the target document. This was sent to me--that is, both the original document with the originator's revisions, plus the second version of the translated documents, with the revisions applied--we hope. My job was to be comparing these two latest documents and make sure all the revisions had been applied. In theory, there are ways of dealing with revisions in JAWS. You will hear JAWS say "revision" as you read the text line by line, but there is nothing that really shows exactly when a deletion starts/ends, when an insertion starts/ends, and so on. Not to speak of deleted/inserted spaces. If you go over the line character by character, you have some chance of seeing start and end, but it gets hairy indeed if the revisions stretch over several lines or pages. Changed formats are another headache. I have sent a letter to Freedom Scientific, actually to one of its trainer, proposing that there be settings in the braille display preferences to not only show that there is an attribute (dots 7-8), but to differentiate them--dot 7 for deletions or strike-through which is actually a font option as well, and dot 8 for insertion. Trouble is, insertion is not a font option, so that has to be set up in some other way. Sound could also be used. I'd love an ascending piano two-note plink for "start insertion" and a descending one for "end insertion." A two-part click for "start deletion" and a reverse one for "end deletion". That could be a sound scheme, and it should work whether you're reading the text from beginning to end, line by line, word by word, etc. So, I'm sorry I can't send you the documents from hell--they would be truly fantastic examples of how things do not work for us. I asked the agency if I could use them, and the answer was nope. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hamid Hamraz via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 10:29 PM To: JFW; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Fw: [AccessSTEM] Help with study on helping blind persons independently format documents Sorry folks if this is off-topic, but it will potentially be helpful to all blind people. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lourdes Morales Villaverde To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 8:51 PM Subject: [AccessSTEM] Help with study on helping blind persons independentlyformat documents Greetings, I'm part of a group of researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz. We are investigating ways in which tools may assist blind people with tasks related to document formatting, and as a first step we need to gather information about document formatting practices, errors and barriers of blind persons. To do this, we need to collect a large number and variety of documents that were created and formatted by blind persons (with at most light perception) without help from sighted persons. Please help us by providing your documents. As this is a National Science Foundation study, we follow a strict rule of maintaining your and your documents’ confidentiality and destroying documents after the study is finished. We will run a draw for two $50 Amazon gift certificate as a token of appreciation for those who provide us with at least 5 documents created with any word processor (Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, etc.). Please only send us documents that are at least 3 pages long. If you are interested in helping us, please email your documents to [email protected]. Also, if you know someone who fits the criteria and might be interested in helping us, please forward this email. We really appreciate your help. Thank you for you time. Best regards, -- Lourdes M. 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