[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

Thu Mar 8 04:14:28 UTC 2012

Press f5 to start the slide show. Presss space to go to the next slide
and backspace to go to the previous slide. I thought you could move
line by line and word by word and such, but I don't have a lot of
experience. You can tab and shift tab between objects. An object on a
slide might be a table, a block of text, or the slide's title. When
you're editing a PowerPoint, you use f6 and shift f6 to move between
the ribbons, the slide areas, where you type the contents of the
slides, and the list of slides.

I actually like PowerPoint. I think it is an essential skill if you
are going to give presentations, which almost everyone will have to.
It is more accessible than it used to be, but I am annoyed that the
formatting is different from options in Ms word. For example, you
choose schemes instead of individual fonts and colors, and the names
of the schemes do not indicate what they look like, so I don't trust
my judgment on choosing one.

Arielle: I love that feature of Gmail, but I have found that I can't
count on it. Maybe PowerPoints are better, but I know that many PDF's
I encountered would not show up as text in the quick view.

I do have a question though. In Office 2007, there was a way to save
PowerPoints into word documents. There were options such as showing
the entire slides, or putting it into a bulletted outline view. I have
not found this in 2010. I know that you can save as to an outline in
RTF, but it isn't as clean as the Ms outlines used to be, so I am
curious if that option is somewhere else in the menus that I just
haven't found yet. Thoughts?

Cindy

On 3/6/12, Kayla Paige <kayla.mattox at cox.net> wrote:
> Thanks very much.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 6, 2012, at 9:12 PM, "Rania Ismail CMT" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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