[nfbcs] JAWS and Office 2007.

[Mike Jolls]

Jaws 12 is what she needs.  It has the program logic to navigate the ribbon.
I'm in the process of upgrading to Jaws 12 but I haven't fully explored the
keystrokes yet and I can't give you a full report.  If you'd like, I'll give
you more details when I know more.  Also, I haven't explored the possibility
that there might be a "classic" view.  That's not a bad way to go if it's
available.  However, one drawback I can see with that approach is if all the
menu items don't have hotkeys.  For those options, then you have to go to
the menu where the option is located, then arrow down to that item in the
list and listen to each menu item until you find what you want.  That's a
sequential access method and sequential is always the slowest even though
once you're familiar with the menus, it's not too bad.  What you'd like to
be able to do is have a keystroke for every single menu item so as you learn
them, you don't have to keep navigating the menus but rather one or two
keystrokes gives you direct access to the option.  From what I've seen,
every option on the ribbon has a direct key combination such as "alt-H" to
go to the home menu group, then "E" for edit.  You type the keystrokes in
that order as I recall.  Direct access is always faster than sequential, so
perhaps the creators of the ribbon had the blind and visually impaired in
mind.  I haven't learned all the keystrokes that I use yet, but this is how
it appears to work.  Once you learn the keystrokes you need, it's direct
access with no sequential navigation.  Provided I'm right and there's a
navigation key sequence to every option, then using the ribbon bar (once
you've memorized the options you use) would be superior to the classic view
and having to navigate and listen to all the options that you don't want.

Then again, there's the upgrade price to Jaws 12, plus a learning curve.
Always a price to pay when technology changes!!

-----Original Message-----
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Of Alan Wheeler
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:30 PM
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Subject: [nfbcs] JAWS and Office 2007.

Is there a way to have the classic Office view in Office 2007 while using
JAWS? My fiancee is having difficulty accomplishing things what she needs to
do using the ribbons. Is there any help for this?
 

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sinner." Smuts Van Rooyen Seventh-day Adventist Kansas/Nebraska camp meeting
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Alan Wheeler 
Lincoln, Nebraska 
awheeler65 at windstream.net 


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