[nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS

Bryan Schulz b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 6 01:19:09 UTC 2011


hi,

nothing rude meant, just referring to you insisting my technique was the 
source of a problem a week ago with jaws 12 and facebook when the issue 
doesn't happen while using a previous version of jaws.

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 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS


> 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
>>>>> Message-ID: <519CD641140D4BAA9990E47F0F254218 at stanford.edu>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>>>>> reply-type=original
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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