[Blindmath] Does anyone know where I could find a blind accountant

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

You can navigate a spreadsheet more quickly with a couple of these tricks:
Press End followed by an arrow key to move in the chosen direction to the next cell that is blank or non-blank. For example, if you are in c3 and it has data, pressing End, then Down takes you to the first cell in column C that is non-blank. This trick was first introduced in Lotus 1-2-3 in DOS in the 1980s.
If you are concerned that you might miss something and want to see all the data, try saving your spreadsheet as HTML and open it in a web browser. You can't manipulate the data this way, but you at least can navigate it.
Get comfortable with the F8 key for selecting groups of cells, so you can move or copy them elsewhere. Your screen reader should be able to tell you how much you are selecting as you go along.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.


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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sabra Ewing via Blindmath
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 2:57 PM
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Cc: Sabra Ewing
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Does anyone know where I could find a blind accountant

The only way I can think of to do this, which I don't know how to do yet, is divide the spreadsheet into regions, then have my screen reader read the rows and columns separately for each region if that is possible. The problem is that when I first get a spreadsheet, I don't know what is on it so I don't know how I would divide the spreadsheet up without help. Another thing is that even if it were possible, that process is tedious and we get a new spreadsheet every class.. 

Sabra Ewing

> On Jun 8, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Sabra Ewing <sabra1023 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a blind accountant who uses a screen reader,  not a screen magnifier, or someone who has experience in this area.  I am majoring in management information systems, but I am taking this accounting class during the summer. I am having a lot of issues understanding the layout of the spreadsheets I have to fill out. I was able to set it up to identify the columns no matter what bro I'm on, but the problem is that it won't work because we are doing multiple tasks on the same spreadsheet, so depending on where I am, the column titled could be different. For example, this one I recently completed with help had the journal entries, the general ledger,  and the unadjusted trial balance on the same sheet. Because of this, I am having problems quickly accessing information from other areas of the spreadsheet to use in the area I am working on, and the way these sheets are laid out or not very intuitive to me and don't make sense to me very well. I have been able to r!
 ead other
  spreadsheets in the past without difficulty, and our course calendar is in a spreadsheet and I can read that fine, but the actual spreadsheets for my course I can't read for some reason. Another thing is that I don't know where the spreadsheet begins and ends, and they skip sells a lot to have blank space, but that also means I keep getting lost and not knowing where I am. To make it a bit more clear, we are given a spreadsheet that has rows and columns with accounts and drop down menus where you select them and all of that, and we have to populate the spreadsheet with numbers. As of now, I have just been using find commands to sort of navigate through the spreadsheet, but for that to work, someone has to tell me exactly what column or what account I am looking for, and yes, I might find it, but then I can't understand how the spreadsheet is laid out. 
> 
> Sabra Ewing

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