[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

Thu Mar 8 04:44:50 UTC 2012

You can also put it in outline mode and read it like a regular text 
document, but I don't remember the keystroke for it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

> 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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