Re: JAWS and page numbers in Word
- From: "Dave S" <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:33:13 -0500
It is not critical that I access this info using JAWS. The question was put
to me by another individual who is very inquisitive and wants to learn all
there is to know. I simply thought that maybe I was missing something.
Thanks all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:17
Subject: Re: JAWS and page numbers in Word
> Hi Dave,
> You've been perfectly clear about how you're creating page numbers in your
> Word document and also that you know to change the view to the Print
Layout
> option in the View menu to reveal them visually and access them with the
> Jaws cursor.
>
> But I don't understand the reason for your dissatisfaction at not being
able
> to get Jaws to speak them as text on the page, without checking for them
in
> another way. If you're confident that page numbering has been achieved,
and
> all is in order, why do you feel the need to "see" those page numbers
while
> traversing the document in Jaws? If they're there, they're there, and
they
> are meant for printing and seeing, and not so much to alerting the user,,
> sighted or blind, to which page you're on.
>
> Are you sure this is a problem? If so, I'll bet there's some
sophisticated
> way to force Jaws to see and speak the numbers. But not as a default
> situation.
>
> Have I misunderstood the reason for your desire to have jaws speak those
> numbers?
>
> script or Whgy ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave S" <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: JAWS and page numbers in Word
>
>
> Hi Judith,
>
> Try this. Open Word. Go to the Insert menu. Choose Page Numbers Decide
> with the arrow keys if you want the page numbers in the Header or Footer.
> Press Tab, then choose the desired alignment such as right, centered, etc.
> You may then uncheck the box which says, "Show number on first page".
Press
> Tab to OK, then Space on it to close the dialog. Create several pages in
> the file, then arrow through them. You will find that JAWS is getting the
> page number from the status line rather than from the inserted page
numbers.
> You can not simply read the page number in the document like you can the
> rest of the text. Perhaps it just can't be done?
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:14
> Subject: Re: JAWS and page numbers in Word
>
>
> > Dave, You hav me confused. Page is page one if you insert the number at
> the
> > bottom, on top of the document or personally encode it in the middle of
> the
> > text. If page one is page one Jaws will read the page number at the top
> of
> > the page as you read from one page to the other. Judith
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave S" <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@freelists.org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:23 AM
> > Subject: JAWS and page numbers in Word
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > > I know that if a user of Word moves from page to page, JAWS will
> announce
> > the page number found on the status line of the window. If the user
> inserts
> > page numbers into a document, how can they get JAWS to read that page
> number
> > without manually moving to the "Header and Footer" area?
> > >
> > > And BEFORE THIS TURNS INTO A GREAT DEBATE, THE ACTUAL PAGE NUMBER DOES
> NOT
> > HAVE TO MATCH THE PAGE NUMBER ON THE STATUS LINE.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
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