[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

[Rania Ismail CMT]

Wow! I didn't know you could do that with gmail! I just had my teachers
email the power points as attachments and than I saved them to my laptop and
opened the powerpoint and read one slide at a time. Thanks for the tip with
gmail.
Rania,

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Arielle Silverman
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:59 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

Hi Kayla,
If your teacher emails you a PowerPoint, you can save it as an outline
(RTF) file and then open it with Microsoft Word to read the text. You
can also read text directly on PowerPoint slides by opening the
presentation and using tab to get into the body of the slide and then
Page Down to go to the next slide. The problem is that in PowerPoint
you have to read the whole slide at once instead of reading by line or
paragraph like you can do in Word.
Finally, for those of you who have Gmail, if someone emails you a
PowerPoint or PDF document, instead of saving it, click "view as HTML"
and the text will appear in a user-friendly, easily searchable form,
like a website without any links.  Note this does not work for scanned
PDF's, but it does work for electronically generated PDF's (like those
you might get from your disability office), PowerPoints, and Word
documents. This is how I read almost all the class handouts and
presentations I receive from other people. In fact, if you don't have
a Gmail account yet, I would suggest getting one for just this
purpose.
Arielle

On 3/6/12, jonathan franks <franks.jonathan13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I learned a brief introduction to powerpoint in 2008, my teacher
> claimed it wasn't very jaws accessible. Have they made improvements,
> so that it is jaws accessible. I have a feeling I might need to learn
> and use it at some point in my college career.
>
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