Re: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:28:37 -0500
Oh, I don't know. I was one of those who vociferously denounced,
cursed and disparaged Office 2007 when I got introduced to it about a
year ago. (Check the archives if you don't believe me.) I've found
that the ribbon tool bar has grown on me of late. And, if I get tired
of messing with it, I can type alt-f and arrow down to
word/powerpoint/excel options and then I can customize my toolbar so
that I just arrow up above the ribbon and have all sorts of neat
commands like table, paragraph, theme and the like readily accessible.
Ribbon's not so bad once you get used to it. It was just a shock at
first because it's like you ahve to learn a whole new bit of software
when you go from 2003 to 2007. Very little of your old knowledge
translates over with regard to navigation. Believe it or not though,
it actually makes some things easier like formatting documents. With
themes, it's easier for a blind person to make decently formatted
documents now since a lot of the guesswork is taken out of it.
What makes it a really good idea to familiarize yourself with the
ribbon though is this:
Developers are totally on board with the whole ribbon concept and are
putting it in aplications other than just Office 2007. Many of them
have taken it into their heads that an application just doesn't look
modern or doesn't have a modern interface unless it's got that nasty
old ribbon on it. That thinking is probably going to spread so, might
as well get to know the ribbon in an aplication that is heavily
supported by assistive technology because, folks, it ain't pretty when
you have it in something that's not and familiarity with it helps a
lot.
Thanks.
Alex M
On 8/8/10, Dave Durber <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marie:
>
> try:
>
> http://www.oldsoftware.com
>
> or
>
> http://www.oldversions.com
>
> HTH
>
> Sincerely:
>
> Dave durber
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marie Lyons
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:15 PM
> Subject: RE: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
>
>
> I have office 2002 and seem to have some problems with outlook. I was
> wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to get a copy of office 2003
> someplace. I am not interested indealing with the ribbons with jaws.
>
>
>
> Marie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:02 AM
> To: JFW list
> Subject: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
>
>
>
>
>
> One of the new features mentioned in the JAWS 12 preview I posted
> yesterday is a "virtual ribbon" option that will emulate the classic menus
> in Office 2003 while retaining the ribbon menu structure everyone loves to
> hate. For those of you who do not plan to upgrade to JAWS 12, I just
> discovered a great little app called Ubit Menu that adds the classic Office
> 2003 menus to the Office 2007/10 ribbon menu. Once you download and install
> this app, you bring up the ribbon menu by pressing Alt, right arrow to the
> Menu tab and hit Enter. Then you can tab and shift tab through the various
> classic 2003 menu options for Word, Excel and Power Point. It works well
> with JAWS 9, and does not disrupt the existing ribbon menu structure in any
> way. So you can have your cake and eat it too; classic Office 2003 menus,
> or the newer and more frustrating Office 2007/10 ribbon menus. So who needs
> JAWS 12 anyway? Besides, Ubit Menu is availabel now, so you don't have to
> wait for JAWS 12 to be released.
>
>
>
> http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
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>
>
> Gerald
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