[nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws

Kayla Paige kayla.mattox at cox.net
Sat Mar 10 20:58:49 UTC 2012


Thanks, Chris.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kayla,
> 
> PowerPoint is very accessible with JAWS.  To read text within a slide, you would open your presentation and page down to the slide you want and hit enter.  Then tab until JAWS says "body place holder" and hit enter.  You can then read the text.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Chris
> 
> Chris Nusbaum
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kayla Paige <kayla.mattox at cox.net
> To: "nabs-l at nfbnet.org" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:42:00 -0500
> Subject: [nabs-l] PowerPoint and jaws
> 
> Hey, does anyone know if jaws will read text within a PowerPoint slide? If so, how would I read it?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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