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

[Ryan Silveira]

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Ryan L. Silveira
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On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Cindy Bennett via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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