[nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS

Nicole B. Torcolini at Home ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Wed Oct 5 23:36:47 UTC 2011


Excuse me, but I don't appreciate that. If you are rude to me again on this 
list, I am going to talk to the moderator about it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS


> hi,
>
> now you finally admit that jaws 12 causes problems.
>
> Bryan Schulz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nicole B. Torcolini at Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS
>
>
>> Unfortunately, I think that some of the things that worked in JAWS 10 and 
>> 11 no longer work properly in JAWS 12.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Patrick B" <peanut440 at hotmail.com>
>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 1:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 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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