[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

[Kayla Paige]

Thanks very much.

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On Mar 6, 2012, at 9:12 PM, "Rania Ismail CMT" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow! I didn't know you could do that with gmail! I just had my teachers
> email the power points as attachments and than I saved them to my laptop and
> opened the powerpoint and read one slide at a time. Thanks for the tip with
> gmail.
> Rania,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Arielle Silverman
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:59 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws
> 
> Hi Kayla,
> If your teacher emails you a PowerPoint, you can save it as an outline
> (RTF) file and then open it with Microsoft Word to read the text. You
> can also read text directly on PowerPoint slides by opening the
> presentation and using tab to get into the body of the slide and then
> Page Down to go to the next slide. The problem is that in PowerPoint
> you have to read the whole slide at once instead of reading by line or
> paragraph like you can do in Word.
> Finally, for those of you who have Gmail, if someone emails you a
> PowerPoint or PDF document, instead of saving it, click "view as HTML"
> and the text will appear in a user-friendly, easily searchable form,
> like a website without any links.  Note this does not work for scanned
> PDF's, but it does work for electronically generated PDF's (like those
> you might get from your disability office), PowerPoints, and Word
> documents. This is how I read almost all the class handouts and
> presentations I receive from other people. In fact, if you don't have
> a Gmail account yet, I would suggest getting one for just this
> purpose.
> Arielle
> 
> On 3/6/12, jonathan franks <franks.jonathan13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I learned a brief introduction to powerpoint in 2008, my teacher
>> claimed it wasn't very jaws accessible. Have they made improvements,
>> so that it is jaws accessible. I have a feeling I might need to learn
>> and use it at some point in my college career.
>> 
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