[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need blind help on a Microsoft word oddity
- From: "Susan Lumpkin" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:14:11 -0800
Sounds strange to me! I bet we wouldn't even recognize it!
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Need blind help on a Microsoft word oddity
Has anyone ever encountered an rtf created by Word that contains a border
that is attached to a paragraph, but it isn't even necessarily attached to
the paragraph where it appears in the document?
This is not a graphic line per se, at least in the way Word defines graphic
lines, so you can't search for it using a graphics search. It is a border
that is specifically controlled by word's paragraph formatting features.
As far as I've been able to determine, there aren't any codes that would
allow a screen reader to find this particular kind of line in an rtf, but I
don't know anything really about screen readers and I'm hoping there is a
way.
To a sighted reader, the paragraph border line appears as a line of small
black boxes that run from the left margin to the right margin of the page.
I'm helping out with a book being proofread that has this problem, and it's
been a bear to resolve. I've figured out how to do it using visual cues and
Word's paragraph border feature within the ribbon in Word 2010, but I can't
find any way that a blind person could even know this kind of line is in the
rft of a book, much less find where the problem actually occurs in the book
and then fix it.
I have a solution that works for a sighted volunteer, but I'd like help from
an experienced blind volunteer to see if there's a way to find this kind of
problem and fix it without relying on visual cues. I'm hoping that this
isn't a word formatting feature that is totally inaccessible, and all based
on sight.
All help is much appreciated. smile.
Judy s.
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