Re: Problem with Word document
- From: "Richard Gaffney" <rcgaff90@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:35:00 -0400
Hi Catherine,
My wife has a similar problem with a form she uses for her volunteer work.
To get into the area she is having a problem with, she arrows down with the
jaws cursor and when she hears the line she wants she roots pc cursor to the
jaws cursor. Then she can fill in the blanks.
hth
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Problem with Word document
> Hi,
>
> I have a Word document which is an application form for a job. It's not a
> form as in with checkboxes and fields etc but seems to be just typed and
> with spaces where one should fill in the answers.
>
> The problem is JAWS isn't reading it properly. For example when I cursor
> down to where it says Personal Details. Then cursoring down below that I
> hear "Surname", "Address" and various things like that. But say I've
> cursored onto the line that says "Surname", and I cursor right or CTRL
> Cursor right to get along the line to the right place to write my surname,
> all JAWS says is "blank" - yet it reads "Surname" when I cursor up or down
> onto that line.
>
> The view is set to "print layout". When I set it "normal" there seems to
be
> nothing at all in the Personal Details section - when I cursor down after
> "Personal Details" I just find a lot of blank lines according to JAWS,
then
> it goes on to the next section.
>
> Can anyone explain what is happening here? I suspect it's something to do
> with the way this document has been created but anyone say what? And is
> there anything I can do about it so I can get to the right places to fill
in
> my answers?
>
> Catherine
>
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