RE: Objects in Word?

Brandon,
 
I begin by saying I rarely use MS Word, preferring WordPerfect, and that I'm
using MS Word 2003 with JAWS 11. A few observations.
 
1. I'm finding JAWS reads through the original MS word text without getting
stuck.
 
2. I can get a cleaner version by copying the text (control-a for select all
and control-c for copy) and pasting the result with control-v into MS's
Notepad. The advantage of Notepad is that it removes all extraneous codes.
You might want to try it.
 
3. After reading through a few paragraphs in the Notepad document, I tried
to copy that text back into MS Word. for some reason, it wouldn't accept it,
even though that same text copied nicely into WordPerfect. 
 
4. In the original MS Word document, I got all kinds of garbage when I
listed the objects with control-shift-o. As you found, the text boxes didn't
read. However, as I've explained, I didn't have the same difficulty you had
reading through the document, and it got even easier with Notepad.
 
5. Before each number, which I assume is a page reference, the text here has
the word "Where." Is that true with your copy? Strange.
 
It's irrelevant to the list, but I'd love to know what you think about
Carver's story "Cathedral." I find his depiction of the Robert character
distressing.

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Brandon Keith
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:48 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Objects in Word?


OK, so those settings didn't fix anything.
What I think is going on is Jaws thinks the block quotes are tables and is
just reading the same row over and over again. I can give you an example
attached. 
If one just reads through that on the constant read they should encounter
what I'm talking about.
Thank you,
 
Brandon Keith
 
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From: Brandon Keith <mailto:brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:20 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re: Objects in Word?

Yes, that is what I thought, but graphical pages don't act like these.
It usually happens when I'm reading a quote:
It reads the quote and keeps on reading the quote till I stop reading and
down arrow to being out of the quote after which it announces the exiting of
an object. After that I'm out of the object and am able to keep on reading
normally till the next large quote.
I'll try these settings and see if that helps.
Thank you,
 
Brandon Keith
 
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From: Farfar Carlson <mailto:dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:41 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re: Objects in Word?

Brandon,
 
Sounds like each scanned page is just a graphical image being shown as a
picture in MS-Word. These will all be objects, and to a sighted person would
look just like a page with text. 
Unfortunately you'll have to use some OCR software to recognize these pages,
and depending on the quality of the scanning, might not read well.
 
You might be better off scanning in the original pages from the book.
 
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brandon Keith <mailto:brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 17:05
Subject: Objects in Word?

Hello, 
my school scans in books for me to read, but for some odd reason just about
all the books when placed into Word have objects. The amount of objects
ranges from 12 too 1194. 
The latter document is very slow to read and sometimes gets stuck in an
object and reads the same page over and over. Then in other cases it skips a
whole page and there is no way for me to get to that page except to search
for it with the find command.
I told the guy who scans about this problem, but he was rather confused and
has no clue what I'm talking about...
Any help would be welcome!
Thank you,
 
Brandon Keith
 
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