Re: Notes Pane in Powerpoint 2007
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:26:01 -0500
Well, I remember when I called Freedom Scientific on it once asking
what xort of scripting and reclassing and such could be done and the
fellow at their tech support department said nothing could be done.
"Our screen reader doesn't work with it and, in fact, no screen reader
works with it," said he. I'm a bit of a rebel, I guess cause that's
what made me go out and download that Window Eyes Demo. Wanted to see
if they had any business making that kind of sweeping statement over
there. Now, it stands to reason that if they can be wrong about one
thing, they can be wrong about another so, who knows? Maybe something
can be done to read that screen. Does anyone know anything about just
how PowerPoint goes about displaying that text? Would, say, Internet
Explorer scripts work with it if the text is presented on the screen
the way browsers do? Does Jaws need to be told to read it with a
virtual cursor? Or, perhaps there might be a skin or something out
there that alters the way the text is displayed and, if someone
downloads it, it'll be as readable with Jaws the way Powerpoint 2003's
was. It's stuff like this that makes me wish I'd gone into computers
instead of majoring in business.
Alex
On 5/18/10, Tom Lange <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MessageHi,
> Yeah, I've tried a Window-Eyes 7.11 demo with Powerpoint 2007 and found that
> the notes pane reads just fine and I can edit reasonably well, too. Hmmm, I
> wonder what kind of control Window-Eyes sees in the notes pane and what
> reclassing that control with JAWS would do. I tried reclassing it to a
> multi-line edit control but had no luck.
> Slightly puzzled.
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Midence
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:19 PM
> Subject: RE: Notes Pane in Powerpoint 2007
>
>
> Pasting form notepad is a neat trick I hadn't heard about. I haven't been
> able to get Jaws to read either the outline pane or the notes pane. I am
> going to try that. UP till now, I've been using a demo of Window eyes which
> reads both these panes just fine in powerpoint 2007. Thinking about biting
> the bullet and buying it when I have the five hundred bucks. I haven't had
> Jaws throw any conniptions over having them both on my machine.
>
> Thanks.
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dave Carlson
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:20 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Notes Pane in Powerpoint 2007
>
>
> Tom,
>
> I took a web course from Freedom Scientific on using PowerPoint with
> JAWS and there was discussion on the notes pane. Basically you cannot do any
> editing in the notes pane, but you can create your notes in Notepad and then
> copy/paste to the relevant Notes panel for the slide.
>
> There is then a JAWS keystroke to read the notes when you have a slide
> on view.
>
> There may be some Freedom Scientific information on their training page.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Lange
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 14:32
> Subject: Notes Pane in Powerpoint 2007
>
>
> Hi,
> I found what looks to be a neat little Powerpoint 2007 tutorial at
>
>
> http://www.utexas.edu/disability/ai/resource/tutorials_classes/JAWS/ppt_overview07.htm
>
> and thought it would be good to know a little about JAWS and
> Powerpoint.
>
> One of the problems that I've run into is how to get the Notes pane to
> read properly when editing or reviewing slide notes. When I run the
> presentation, JAWS reads the slide notes automatically. Does the notes pane
> need to be reclassed? Or is there some other method of getting JAWS to read
> text in this pane as I add or review it? My workaround thus far has been to
> create the slide notes in notepad or Word, then paste them in, not exactly
> the most efficient way to do things. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
> Tom
>
>
>
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