[nfbcs] nfbcs Digest, Vol 172, Issue 1
Oscar Josue Montiel
oscarjmontiel37 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 17:27:28 UTC 2018
Hello,
My name is Oscar Montiel and I am taking an introduction to JAVA course in college. The professor is having us install a program called Eclypse IED. Is this program accessible with JAWS and if not what program do you recomend I use to do my JAVA programming?
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> 1. Using Be My Eyes to click an invisible button (Tracy Carcione)
> 2. Re: Using Be My Eyes to click an invisible button (Currin, Kevin)
> 3. Anyone know VBA? (Sarah Jevnikar)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:34:30 -0400
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
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> Subject: [nfbcs] Using Be My Eyes to click an invisible button
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> Yesterday, I was trying to upgrade some software, and it had a place to
> click to continue that was totally invisible to the screen reader, either
> Jaws or Narrator. I used Be My Eyes to get specialized help from Microsoft,
> and the tech helped me move the mouse until I was over the invisible button
> and could click it with the actual mouse. This is not an easy thing to do,
> but he was calm and patient, and together we got the job done.
>
> Where I work, we can give official thank-yous to people we work with. If I
> could, I'd give one to that Microsoft tech. Without his help, I'd have had
> to wait quite a while until a sighted friend could come over, or pay someone
> to do a thing that's simple for a sighted person, but was impossible for me.
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> Tracy
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:41:54 +0000
> From: "Currin, Kevin" <kwcurrin at email.unc.edu>
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> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Using Be My Eyes to click an invisible button
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> This reminds me of the other day when I was downloading files from a website. The download buttons were completely invisible with jaws. I could tell where they were supposed to be based on the HTML source of the page, but jaws just didn't report them. NVDA did though, which I find odd.
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> Kevin
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> Subject: [nfbcs] Using Be My Eyes to click an invisible button
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> Yesterday, I was trying to upgrade some software, and it had a place to
> click to continue that was totally invisible to the screen reader, either
> Jaws or Narrator. I used Be My Eyes to get specialized help from Microsoft,
> and the tech helped me move the mouse until I was over the invisible button
> and could click it with the actual mouse. This is not an easy thing to do,
> but he was calm and patient, and together we got the job done.
>
> Where I work, we can give official thank-yous to people we work with. If I
> could, I'd give one to that Microsoft tech. Without his help, I'd have had
> to wait quite a while until a sighted friend could come over, or pay someone
> to do a thing that's simple for a sighted person, but was impossible for me.
>
> Tracy
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:01:20 -0400
> From: "Sarah Jevnikar" <sarah.jevnikar at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [nfbcs] Anyone know VBA?
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> Hi all,
> If anyone knows VBA, I need your help.
>
> I have the following situation:
> I'm creating accessibility WCAG 2.0 compliance reports. They take the form
> of a table, where each row is a WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion. Due to requests
> from my colleagues, I've been asked to make available the following
> formatting changes, most of which I've been able to achieve with macros
> (mainly keystroke-recorded as I don't know VBA)
> * colour-code any failed success criteria (done thanks to Google and a
> colleague who doesn't know VBA either but can at least read code)
> * put failed success criteria into an Excel spreadsheet (done)
> * split the 62-row table into 4 smaller ones, each under their own heading
> associated with each principle (done)
> * Create a separate table of failed success criteria in my main Word
> document (here's the trouble)
>
> As I am creating an Excel file already, and Excel has filtering options that
> allow me to create a separate "Failed Success Criteria" sheet, which I have
> pasted into its own file in Excel, using Excel to filter out the data seems
> to make sense. There's no clear way to do the same in Word. I have the data
> I want in Excel, I just need to get it back to Word and into my main
> (larger) report.
>
> I thought the best way to achieve this would be if I started in Word, since
> most of what I'll be doing with the information is there. In Word I've
> opened Excel to the right workbook, but am not sure how to select the range
> of cells in that workbook. I then want to copy that selected text into a new
> Word document as uncoded plain text, convert that text into a Word table,
> give it a heading, and copy the whole damn thing back into my main report.
> In case I have also run the macro to split the complete (failed and passed)
> table into subsections, I want to change those headings (level 3) into level
> 4 headings so hierarchy is preserved. A standard find-and-replace should do
> the job here I think.
>
> To summarize,
> * I want to, from within Word, open an Excel spreadsheet, select and copy
> its contents, then paste them into a new Word doc, but can't
> * I'd like to convert this text to a table whose size I am not sure of
> because the number of rows will change based on the number of failed success
> criteria. Recording this with keystrokes seemed to set my number of rows to
> a specified digit rather than a relative value.
>
> I've been around in circles on Google. It's helped but not with the
> selecting, copying and pasting bit. Am I coming at this from the wrong
> angle?
>
> If anyone can help, I'd be grateful. I'm happy to share my source files
> etc., as nothing is confidential even though this is a project for my job.
>
> Thank you,
> Sarah
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