[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws
vejas
brlsurfer at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 04:49:17 UTC 2012
Kayla,
My brailleist gets rid of pictures then sends it to me text-only
as a Microsoft Word File.
Vejas
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From: "Nicole B. Torcolini at Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com
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Date sent: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:44:50 -0800
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws
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.
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From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:14 PM
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,
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Of Arielle Silverman
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:59 PM
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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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