Russell: I just reviewed Paul's very thorough tips on using track changes in Word. I think I was in that thread with Paul, and I cannot think of a thing he left out. You should know that turning on the quick access keys with JAWS key plus z is pretty much useless in large documents. So, don't rely on that. Also, don't rely on JAWS to give you the colors of the added and deleted text. In the end, that's not all that important because the colors depend on everyone's computer. So a deletion that is in red on your computer may be green on someone else's computer. In the verbosity settings, turning on "count" is crucial. That way you'll know if there has been a change in a line if you are reading by line. This is not too reliable if you are jumping by paragraph. JAWS won't always tell you when an entire paragraph has been deleted if you are jumping through a document with control plus down arrow. Paul is also right about sighted users having some of the same problems, especially in identifying who made what changes. JAWS will actually announce the names. Sighted users have to jump through way more hoops to figure out who made what change -- particularly when there have been 4 or 5 people editing a document. Good luck. Ps As frustrating as JAWS is on track changes, the other screen readers either don't attempt to follow track changes or do so crudely.
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:53 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Russell Solowoniuk Subject: Re: Track changes in Word 2007/2013 Hi Kimber, Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions… very helpful. You and Paul suggest the same trick of using the Quick Access toolbar… a great idea. Take care, Russell > On May 13, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Kimber Gardner via Jfw <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Track changes are, quite honestly, a pain in the butt with any version > of jaws. It can be done, but you will need patience and perseverance. > > Now having said that, what I've done is place accept and reject > changes on the quick access toolbar so I can use control key > combinations to perform these functions. The whole operation is still > a bit clunky, and there are times when you will need to use your jaws > functions to list revisions and the like. But it can be done. > > Kimber > > On 5/12/15, Russell Solowoniuk via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> What is the most efficient way to use track changes in MS Word 2013 >> or >> 2007 using Jaws 16? It seems a little tedious to bring up a list of >> revisions with shift + Insert + R and then work through all the >> listed insertions and deletions one by one, especially in a long >> document. Is there a way to accept or reject a change and then jump >> directly to the next revision and so on without having to bring up the list >> again? >> >> Any suggestions for using track changes more efficiently would be >> greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks all. >> >> Russell >> >> -- >> Russell Solowoniuk >> tel: 473-5819 >> e-mail: [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
