[JAWSLite] Re: JAWS capability previous PowerPoiint concerns

As a non-PowerPoint user and someone long since graduated from college, I've been following Don Mauck's and now your suggestions to Vanessa with interest. I don't think we can tell professors not to use graphics, but we can say that if they do so, they should provide text equivalents. I hope Don and others familiar with PowerPoint can come up with good guidelines for students confronting this and other applications that present accessibility difficulties. It's wonderful that subscribers to this list provide such valuable help to students, as well as the rest of us. 
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From: "Armando Maldonado" <armando_maldonado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You need to tel the instructors that in order for you to view a power point using jaws, the powerpoint itself needs to be in HTML format and that no graphics shall be present. HTH. 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vanessa Solis" <vrsolis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:41 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] JAWS capability previous PowerPoiint concerns
To make a request to a professor so that the material for a class is readable by JAWS, do I state that the information must be text based not graphic based? Or is this referred to in some other words? 

Vanessa
--- Don Mauck <don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vanessa, Was this originally created in Word? Was it originally an actual power point? Right now, I'd say that this was not created in Power point, however, if it was I'd like to see the actual power point rather than having it put into a word document. You also sent it to me in a format that Jaws does not support so I had to change the view to a normal view. So just to make sure you understand what I'm asking, what was the original format you were given? 

Oracle Don Mauck | Accessibility Evangelist Cross Applications Unlimited
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Denver CO 80237
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-----Original Message-----
From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vanessa Solis
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:36 PM
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: PowerPoint advice
I have attached the WORD document that has two of the slides in it. Thank you for your assistance. 

Vanessa
--- Don Mauck <don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hmmm, it could be some kind of imbedded graphic I'd half to see it. If you want you could send it to me directly as an attachment and I 

could have a look.

Oracle Don Mauck | Accessibility Evangelist Cross Applications Unlimited
7700 Technology Way
Denver CO 80237
Phone (303) 334-4184
Email don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vanessa Solis
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:50 AM
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: PowerPoint advice
Nothing happens exept, JAWS reads tab enter. Is an embedded field something that sounds like it came from PowerPoint? 

--- Don Mauck <don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you try to press enter on the slide? What happens if you press

the tab key and then press the enter key?

Oracle Don Mauck | Accessibility Evangelist Cross Applications Unlimited
7700 Technology Way Denver CO 80237 Phone (303) 334-4184 Email don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vanessa Solis
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:27 AM
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: PowerPoint advice
I tried enter and f6 to access the content of the slide. I have been able to copy it to WORD, but not to this message so you could see it. In WORD, it is called an embedded field.
Does this tell you anything more about the slide? I thought it was created with PowerPoint, but I am guessing. I will ask for assistance from the instructor, but I wanted to make sure I 

was using JAWS correctly.

Any suggestions on how this text can be read, or that it can not be

read by JAWS? Vanessa

--- Don Mauck <don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's what I have found. To read the slide you need to press the enter key to get into the text. For example: if you see "slide one," you can then tab, press enter, and you should see the information in the slide. Also you can press F6 to cycle through the slide name, thumb nail and notes. So you may have some one who has entered 

something in the notes content that you might need to read as well.
When in PowerPoint, read the helps that Jaws provides, it will also be a big help in this. Hth. 

Oracle Don Mauck | Accessibility Evangelist Cross Applications Unlimited
7700 Technology Way Denver CO 80237 Phone (303) 334-4184 Email don.mauck@xxxxxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vanessa
Solis
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:27 AM
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [JAWSLite] PowerPoint advice
I am taking a class on the internet. PowerPoint is used for some of the class. Can anyone advise me if JAWS will work on PowerPoint slide shows. I had some training in PowerPoint many years ago, so I know 

JAWS will work, but I do not know enough to be aware of whether the
creator of the slide-show has to create it in a specific way or if I need to change my JAWS settings to read the material. JAWS is reading all of the links around the slides, but not recognizing the slide text.
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