[Nfb-science] question about editing papers with co-authors

[John Miller]

Cheryl,
I am very proud of you. You are truly doing the work of a scientist when you co-author a many page MS word document.
The entire engineering community vastly prefers track changes in MS word.
I feel that JAWS is really poor at this task. It could be my bad training in JAWS, however.
One idea: have your assistant paste all revisions in to a word document or text document with notation such as 
Original doc said: ...
First author proposes ...
Etc
You can pretty easily in JAWS learn the page number and line number of where you wish to make your own edit.
I find it much faster to collect my edits with where I would like to place them and ask my sighted assistant to paste them to the desired location.

Another thing to check is if vocal-eyes handles this situation any more gracefully.
Let us know how it goes and have a great weekend!
Very best,
John
 

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From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of cheryl fogle
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:17 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-science] question about editing papers with co-authors

        Hello all,
 
I'm looking for tips on productive ways a blind person can edit papers with co-authors.  My sighted colleagues favor using the "track changes" option in word for edits.  I have found difficulties where Jaws 11.0 commands don't bring up the list of revisions for me in Word 2003 with Windows XP pro.  I went through the Jaws application help on that topic and have already stumped technical support.
 
Can anyone suggest technical or nontechnical ways to do the edits.  I have limited use of an assistant if I choose to do the editing with a reader, but another entity is paying for those hours.  Can anyone give a ball-park estimate for hours of reader time needed to edit about 50 pages with multiple revisions per page?  Thanks.
 
Cheryl
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