[access-uk] Re: Why I hate Word - from a JAWS user
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:26:07 -0000
It's cool Paul. I'm over it now.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Paul Leake
Sent: 14 January 2010 11:28
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Why I hate Word - from a JAWS user
yes Daman, it was designed for mouse users I think? i suspect that any
screen reader users will have the same issues whatever screenreader
they use!
Cheers
Paul
paul.leake@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Damon Rose <mailto:damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:37 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Why I hate Word - from a JAWS user
Microsoft Word is meant to be brilliantly accessible. And indeed
you can tell that Freedom Scientific have put a lot of work into it to
make it as accessible as possible, it being a fairly indispensible part
of the software port folio in your average office.
Tables are accessible. You can increase font and change colours.
You can alter margins, add page numbers, use hyperlinks, there's a
hundred things you can do with it and they're all accessible. However,
if you aren't a mouse user and can't whizz your way across the screen
and appreciate the results once you've altered them, then it takes
absolutely blinking ages to read and create documents that your sighted
colleagues take minutes to create.
Want to make your heading a bit bigger? And perhaps embolden it
too? Well if you're not too careful, you might accidentally do same to
the text below it in a last minute change of heart about the content.
Result: it looks embarrassingly rubbish.
Create a bullet point list and find yourself playing around with
it for several minutes because you've got one too many bullet points and
you can't get rid of the unnecessary bullet, or Word decides it wants to
bullet point things that you didn't want.
The best most accessible documents are the ones you create. You
know them, you know your way round them. But it's still difficult. The
documents that your colleagues like the most because they're 'at a
glance' user friendly, are the ones you find most difficult to access.
Access to Word is a myth because it's so time consumingly
unusable.
When you launch Word it takes 20 seconds before a blank document
opens, longer if you're clicking on a pre-existing document. There's so
much lag and there's a lack of control that makes me want to scream.
So that's why I use Metapad and .txt files for as much of my
work as possible, only transferring to Word if I need to spellcheck or
format it in a fancy way. It's faster, unbelievably faster. Or that's my
finding.
And yes, I have had Word training, I do understand how it works,
but there's so much darn pussyfooting around when creating documents
that I can't help but think there must be a better way.
That's all I wanted to say. Do have a nice day. Xxx
Damon Rose
Senior Content Producer bbc.co.uk/ouch
BBC Vision Learning
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