Re: Jaws 12 in Outlook shared calendar.
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 22:27:42 -0800
Judy,
Shared calendars work fine with Outlook 2007 and JAWS 12 so I suspect there
shouldn't be any difference with Outlook 2010.
In current view, Day/week/month view is recommended with JAWS. Also check the
day (Ctrl+Alt+1) item.
The Day item means that as you tab, you will route through the day you're on.
As you tab through each appointment and you reach the latest, when you tab
again you'll be back at the top of that day.
Week (Ctrl+Alt+3) means that as you tab, when you leave the latest appointment
on a given day, you'll land on the first appointment of a subsequent day. This
view is actually a bit more responsive than the day view.
Yes, turn off those unwanted views in calendar just like in the inbox, as they
get in the way of JAWS.
Except the navigation pane -- you'll need that to select the shared calendars.
Either normal or minimized, but minimized takes extra steps to open and close,
so distracting.
Ctrl+g will let you jump to a particular day, as George has already said.
F6 is an important key to use in switching between folders and the different
calendars, just like in the message folders.
F6 to jump to the calendar folders, and arrow down to the calendar you are
sharing, spacebar to check.
F6 again will put you in the view of the shared calendar.
Another f6 will put you in your own calendar.
Navigation with JAWS is the same in either calendar, but I notice that the
number of appointments announced each day is not consistent with a single
calendar. I think JAWS gets confused and reads the total of both calendars for
a given day, as though they are overlaid on each other. However tabbing through
the day reads only the appointments for that particular calendar.
Insert + a and Insert + a twice help you listen to all appointments in a given
day, as well as virtualizing.
Most important key to use is Insert+f1, as it gives you a very long list of
hotkeys to use, and appears to be well-written.
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording
and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Jones
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 21:21
Subject: Re: Jaws 12 in Outlook shared calendar.
Thanks, George. I'll try that.
Here's another question? What view is recommended for best results?I'm just
familiar enough with ribbons to know views can be chosen, but hadn't checked in
the calendar. In the e-mail program, if memory serves, I believe the reading
pane is turned off. Don't know if those settings relate at all to the
calendar. I suspect they're different. Will check views when I get to work
tomorrow.
BTW, I did call Jaws tech support, and all Nikki could tell me is that Jaws
12 doesn't work well with Office 10 Outlook shared calendar. No hint of any
kind of solution. I need to be told something I don't know.
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: George B
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: Jaws 12 in Outlook shared calendar.
You need to tell us what view you have the thing in and other settings and
then I am sure we can help.
At this time I can say do a go to and select day and type in the date and
go that way
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Judy Jones
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 17:43
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Jaws 12 in Outlook shared calendar.
Hello to all.
In using Outlook 10 with Jaws 12, in the shared calendar at work. No
matter how I up or down arrow, right or left arrow, tab or shift tab, I never
land in the same place.
My superviser called today asking about one of our counselor's calendar.
She was very gracious while I madly hopped about through the calendar trying to
miraculously land on the right date and appointment she was asking about. It
took me 2 minutes to finally reach my goal. She was very gracious, but this
should've never happened. I need to be able to take way less time than that.
Any questions or suggestions are welcome to help me out of this calendar
dilemma.
Judy
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