[jawsscripts] Re: Excel forms

There is a new DAISY book "Xtra Creating Excel forms with input messages" on 
the Freedom Scientific Training page.  It can be read with the FS Reader 
Demo.

Brian Lee
brianllee@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Excel forms


> Hi all.  I'd like to know if there is a way to develop forms in Excel that
> are JAWS friendly similar
> to the well known method used with MS Word.  If there isn't an easy way to
> attach text to some
> "help text" property of the form field in Excel, then does anyone know of
> any approaches through
> scripting to do the same thing.
> I was thinking of maybe writing a script that interacted with the Excel
> Object Model to essentially
> mimic the methodology currently in place for MS Word.  In other words, 
> have
> the form developer
> include a string of text in some yet to be defined property and have my
> script speak this text when
> the focus changes in Excel.
>
> I don't want to re-invent the wheel so please let me know what if anything
> already exists to accomplish
> the same goal.  Excel forms are so common I'd be suprised if this is the
> first time someone has gone
> down this road......
>
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