[nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

Unfortunately, I think that some of the things that worked in JAWS 10 and 11 
no longer work properly in JAWS 12.

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From: "Patrick B" <peanut440 at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS


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> Hi Nicole,I have performed updates to JAWS 12 as well as any updates to MS 
> Office. I didn't think an update like that would break it, although I do 
> know it's possible. As far as I can tell, Excel is the only program that's 
> behaving differently with JAWS. Patrick
>> From: "Nicole B. Torcolini at Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
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>> Have you done an update lately? Even if you did not install an update
>> specifically for that program, things sometimes can get changed with the
>> regular updates that happen automatically. Also, are any other programs
>> doing similar things? It could be a problem with JAWS.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Patrick B" <peanut440 at hotmail.com>
>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:35 AM
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS
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>> >
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>> > Hi, Has something happened with accessibility in Microsoft Excel using
>> > JAWS? I used to have no trouble using it, I could use the arrow keys to
>> > move between cells and JAWS would announce the coordinates of the cell 
>> > and
>> > read the contents. Now, when I try this, JAWS reads nothing. the only 
>> > way
>> > I can get it to read anything is by performing a read current line
>> > keystroke, where it reads a number of cells all together in a 
>> > nonsensical
>> > fashion. Even weirder is the fact that the last time I remember it
>> > working, I was still using the same version of Excel (2010 
>> > Professional)
>> > and JAWS (12).Does anybody know why this might be happening?
>> > Thanks,Patrick
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