[nabs-l] Checking boxes in word documents

[Cindy Bennett]

A big shoutout to my friend Humberto who emailed me off list and
shared these directions with me. I am pasting them here if anyone else
encounters this.

1.       Once you arrow your cursor and place it in your checkbox,
using the left or right arrow keys, once you land on the box, press
the right click (or applications key) that is to the right of the
start menu key in the lower right of the keyboard, if using a laptop,
this key might be located differently.

2.       This places you in a context menu, which is your menu of
choices. At this point, down arrow until you hear “properties”, or
simply press the letter R to quickly jump there.

3.       Once you do that, you will land on a form field properties
dialog box, at this point, press tab until you hear “Not Checked radio
button checked.” These are radio buttons, so hit down arrow to the
option “checked radio button”, then, press the enter key to close the
box.

4.       At this time, your checkbox should be checked. Unless you
print out your document and turn it in, you won’t know how exactly
your checkbox is really checked or the look of it, but otherwise you
should be fine.

These check boxes are not easily navicable. I found that they were
typically in the "space" before the descriptor. For example, if you
have yes and no check boxes on the same line of the document, when my
curssor was on the "space" before the word "yes," when I right
clicked, the opportunity to check the box came up. If you right click,
and that option is not there, then you are not on the check box. And
if more than one option is on one line, find where all of the check
boxes are before checking one.

JAWS did not indicate verbally when I checked a box. It still
indicated that all options were unchecked. However, when I double
checked, JAWS would indicate in the choices in the menu after right
clicking that the box I wanted was, in fact, checked. I am having a
sighted person review it, and they will let me know if this is
actually true.

So right now, the inability to review a document that someone else has
filled out is frustrating, but I am happy for the successful
directions.

Cindy


On 11/3/12, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> Well, it probably depends on how they create it.  I would try
> switching to JAWS cursor and see if you can move it into the box,
> then route PC to JAWS, read current word to see where it is, it may
> check it, or you may need to press space bar, or it may not work at all.
>
> These things tend to take experimentation.  After routing you might
> need to double click mouse instead.
>
> Dave
>
> At 03:44 PM 10/31/2012, you wrote:
>>When I encounter documents that require a check mark, I usually put an
>>x in the places I want to check. However I have noticed that many
>>documents now have check boxes imbedded into them, and I am guessing
>>that a sighted person would click inside these boxes if they want to
>>check them.
>>
>>I am a JAWS user, and I have encountered difficulty doing this. If the
>>document isn't super important, then I just delete the check boxes and
>>x the choice I want to check. But when documents are important, what
>>is the best way to go about this?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Cindy Bennett
>>B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington
>>
>>clb5590 at gmail.com
>
>
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-- 
Cindy Bennett
B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington

clb5590 at gmail.com