[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 7:25 PM, Joe via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Bennett
> via nabs-l
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> Subject: [nabs-l] Customizing Feedback JAWS Gives About MS Word Track
> 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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