[gui-talk] Word and Outlook 2013

[David Andrews]

Your IT folks must not be that good, in all honesty. Thousands of us 
use this stuff each and every day!

Dave

At 03:01 PM 11/18/2015, you wrote:
>My employer (a county government) has never been able to get any 
>assistive technology to work with our Microsoft-based network, 
>despite over 6 years of efforts.  As a result, I will eventually be 
>getting an office-issued iPad Pro, since I already use my personal 
>iPad to do most everything that does not require direct network 
>access.  Unfortunately, there are still things that have to be done 
>on the network computer.  Both Outlook and Word, and often the 
>computer itself, crash every 10 minutes or less, which seriously 
>reduces my ability to get work out quickly - or at all, in some 
>cases.  IT insists nothing is wrong with the computer or the 
>Microsoft programs on it.  I have been assured that the assistive 
>technology (JAWS and MAGic at this point) are Enterprise versions 
>and properly installed on the network.
>
>Until the iPad Pro arrives, and IT agrees to allow it modified 
>network access, does anyone have any ideas how to at least stop the 
>Microsoft programs from crashing constantly?  My back-up has been to 
>type everything on Notepad, copy it to a Word our Outlook document, 
>and not delete the Notepad draft until things finally save.  Any 
>other ideas?  I run both JAWS and MAGic, and need at least one of 
>them on at all times.  I can theoretically do some things visually, 
>providing the magnification is set to HUGE and keep my nose to the 
>surface of the monitor, but I have not been able to get a better 
>result by turning either one or the other program off.

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org