[gui-talk] Word and Outlook 2013
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Thu Nov 19 03:33:36 UTC 2015
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
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