[nabs-l] Customizing Feedback JAWS Gives About MS Word Track Changes and Other Group Paper Writing Advice

[Cindy Bennett]

Hello,

Does anyone know whether the feedback one receives in Microsoft Word
with track changes and JAWS turned on can be customized? I am working
on a paper with a group and write and rewrite text pretty often. I am
having a hard time managing the feedback about everything I have
deleted. I would like the track changes to show up visually but am not
interested in hearing everything that has been deleted and would
prefer that JAWS only select text that has not been deleted.

I tried NVDA, and NVDA gave no feedback, reading back the paper with
all deleted text and no indication the text was deleted.

I do need to update NVDA, and am using word 2010. So please let me
know if recent NVDA updates have improved this problem or if JAWS and
word 2013 seem to work better.

Google Docs is not a good option because the publishing body we are
submitting to has specific templates, and they do not have one for
Google docs. My team does not use LaTex, so that is not an option
either.

Thanks for your input, and other group writing advice.

Cindy


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Cindy Bennett
1st Year Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
Human Centered Design and Engineering

Treasurer of the National Federation of the Blind of Washington
an Affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind

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