Hi Gigi, re office 2010, yes, there are issues with JAWS 13. the way to resolve this is to first, enable ribbon support in jaws, after that it's a bit of tweaking in jaws preferences to make it behave the way it needs to. Office 2010 has become bogged down with unnecessary junk. Microsoft has stated to me that they will not make office accessible on the mac platform as they believe they do not need to make the necessary changes for voiceover, in other words, they expect apple to change voiceover to suit microsoft apps needs.
All I can say is to encourage your client to move to the mac and with some time and support, your client will get used to using a mac system including the OS and hardware. that's all I can say in fairness. take care and have a good day. lew On 7 Mar 2012, at 19:56, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys. > I have this friend who recently decided not to switch to a Mac. She decided > to get a Windows desktop, and she has Jaws 13 in it. So be@ this post is Mac > related since my question for her is not, let me relay my experiences this > weekend trying to help her set something in Excel. > > I had set up a file for her to use for doing invoicing. She is going to start > working doing braille proofreading with one of my customers, and she asked me > for help. I created her some examples, and the most important one to talk > about here is Excel file I exported for her from Numbers. > > She called me on Sunday night to help her get an invoice turned in by the > next day. Neither of us knew we were going to have the trouble we had. > > Sighted people had never complained that they couldn't read any Excel files I > sent them, so I didn't expect any trouble. Jaws utterly refused to read the > file I gave her. Thinking that Jaws wasn't using the proper configuration > file under Jaws 13, we went looking for it. We never found it, although I > think it's there. We gave up on the example file, and we called up Excel from > the desktop, and Jaws started reading the thing just fine. We then typed up > everything from scratch and saved the file. But, when she went back to read > what she had saved, nothing. > > I ended up retyping her information again from my Mac, exporting the file, > and sending it to her so she could turn it in. She bought Office 2010 > downloaded from Microsoft. Does anybody know if they did something weird to > it so it can't read these days with Jaws? I am so glad I got rid of that > thing. She was so frustrated that I didn't even try to tell her how to set up > Jaws to announce column and row headings. It's so much easier to set that in > Numbers by using the header cokumns and header rows. She will be very > grateful if any of you guys knows something she can try. She wants do this > thing once a week. Since Office 2010 doesn't work on the Mac for us, I am > suspicious that when Jaws was updated, the configuration file doesn't always > work any more. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:44 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't have answers to all of your questions, but I have both Utorrent and >> adobe digital editions on my mac and they work great. >> >> As far as your wifi, have you been doing your updates for mac OS? If not, >> then I suggest you do them and see if that fixes your problem. That should >> help with facebook as well. As far as facebook goes, I have an account but >> really no interest in the thing. I had to teach it to a client last month >> though, so I know they are rolling out a new profile page. It's possible >> that things aren't working for you because we're giving you instructions >> using the old look, and you've been upgraded to the new one. >> >> Then again, it's entirely possible the mac just isn't for you. Personally, >> I want to self-mutilate every time I boot a windows machine. I'll never go >> back, even with nvda being free and effective. Windows performance is just >> painful. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> Currently on ebony promos: Ebony consulting on android accessibility, New >> drive imaging services available. To read more and subscribe, visit >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com >> >> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> >> On 2012-03-07, at 4:21 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: >> >>> Hi friends, >>> >>> I don't post often here, but I regularly check all the posts. >>> I have a question. >>> I purchased my MacBook last July, so I've had it for more than 9 months. >>> A few months ago, I installed Windows on my Mac with the help of Bootcamp. >>> >>> So, the issue is that I'm always tempted to use Windows instead of the Mac. >>> This is because of the following reasons: >>> 1. On many occasions, I get an error message saying that my Internet >>> connection is not working properly. >>> If I try using Windows for using the Internet at the very same time, >>> then it works perfectly. >>> And, even on the Mac, the Internet starts working perfectly after >>> sometime, without me having to do anything. >>> 2. I still haven't been able to figure out an easy and effective way >>> of using Facebook on the Mac, and I use Facebook a lot, so this is a >>> major issue for me. >>> Even most of the methods that are known to work with VO don't work for >>> me, so I often end up getting frustrated because of this. >>> 3. As you all must be aware, there is no way of reading captchas on >>> the Mac with VO. >>> 4. I read books by downloading them through Utorrent with the help of >>> Adobe Reader on Windows. >>> I haven't yet been able to successfully download Utorrent on my Mac. >>> And I haven't yet found any decent application for reading books on the Mac. >>> >>> So, those are my main concerns. >>> I'd love to use the Mac like all of you, but I somehow can't find a >>> way to deal with these problems. >>> And I just don't find any major reasons for using the Mac instead of >>> Windows. >>> I mean, people say that it's far better than Windows and all, but I >>> haven't been able to find even one accessible feature that is >>> available on the Mac, but not on Windows. >>> >>> So, please do share your views and suggestions. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Rahul >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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