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

[Joe]

Change the document so that it shows a final draft without markup. By doing
so, you'll be able to see only the text you want without constant reminders
about revisions here and there. Arielle's suggestion about turning off track
changes is a good one, but not a recommended option, as it would be too easy
to move on with editing and forgetting to turn track changes back on. The
option you want is under the Review tab.

Joe

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Changes and Other Group Paper Writing Advice

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

clb5590 at gmail.com

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