[Nfbc-info] Microsoft Share-Point

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Oct 10 22:30:51 UTC 2015


Well, as I said earlier, Sharepoint can be set up in different ways, 
so it may not be possible to read a document, even though it started 
out as Word. It may be too, I obviously can't say from here.

If you are a client or customer of rehab, it is rediculous to ask you 
to get a document from Sharepoint.  If you are an employee, and a 
part of a team, working on documents, it makes sense, but for 
external  people, who just need to read something it is stupid and 
not a reasonable expectation.

Dave

At 01:02 AM 10/9/2015, Lisa Irving via Nfbc-info wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>Thank you very much for your response The document is supposed to be 
>in word, or at least, I was told it was sent as a word document. 
>Therefore I would think it would be incredibly easy to word read the 
>word document. I went to the toolbar and I opened up options I 
>didn't get anywhere with that and I read a list of jaws commands one 
>of them told me to go to options so I'm not quite sure what's up is 
>there a simpler way to get a document from Department of rehab or 
>any large bureaucracy?
>From,
>Lisa Irving
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 6:42 PM, David Andrews via Nfbc-info 
> <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Sharepoint is a ""collaboration tool," that is it allows groups 
> of people to share and edit documents, calendars, automate tasks 
> etc.  The document could be a word document, a powerpoint document, a P
> > DF, or something else.  Sharepoint could let you download the 
> document, read it with word, show it to you through a viewer, or 
> possibly something else -- depending on how it is set up.
> >
> > Sharepoint isn't necessarily inaccessible, but it depends on the 
> version, how it is set up, how it is used etc.  It can be 
> complicated and overwhelming.  There really is no simple 
> instruction I can give you, as there are lots of variables.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > 07:35 PM 10/7/2015, you wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The Department of Rehabilitation sent me some paperwork that is stored or
> >> formatted; I'm not sure, in an online program called, Microsoft 
> Share-Point.
> >> I am unable to use standard JAWS reading keys to read the document. If
> >> you've had experience using MS Share-Point in conjunction with JAWS would
> >> you please tell me how to read the document?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Lisa Irving

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org





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