[nabs-l] Jaws and PowerPoint

[Stephen Alexander Marositz]

Greetings 

 

Jaws will read PowerPoint slides.  It's different than reading a text based
document though.  What you need to understand is a slide is made up of
content areas and you can't use your standard reading commands like arrow
keys to read the slide until you are inside one of those content areas.
There are usually two content errias, a title content area and a content
area.  Most of the relevant area will be in the content area.  

 

When you open a PowerPoint slide, press the tab key to move jaws focus to
one of the content areas.  Now if you were to use the arrow keys, you will
move the content area.  Press enter to move focus to inside the content
area.  Once you've done that, you will be able to use whatever reading
command you like to read the text or whatever else has to be inside the
content area.  Press the escape key to move back out of the content area and
PG up and PG down to go the next or previous slide.  

 

I know this is only a brief explanation and it assumes the content within
the PowerPoint is accessible.  You can contact me off list for more detail
about using PowerPoint and Jaws if you like.  

 

Good Luck