[nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS

Thu Oct 6 05:06:55 UTC 2011

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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 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS


> Bryan,
>
>    I do admit that that particular email to which you are refering was 
> rather short; I was probably in a hurry when I wrote it, but I will try in 
> the future to write better emails. Regardless, I did not mean, implecitly 
> or explicitly, that your technique was the source of the problem, and I 
> sincerely apologize if that is how it came across. However, I do consider 
> it rude to call me MSP, which I assume stands for Miss Smarty Pants 
> (please tell me if it stands for something else).
>
> ----- 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 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Microsoft Excel support in JAWS
>
>
>> 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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