[nabs-l] Jaws and PowerPoint

[Kayla Paige]

Thanks.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:04 AM, "Stephen Alexander Marositz" <samarositz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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