RE: word problem with Jaws

  • From: "emarquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 22:02:16 -0500

Let me echo this warning about track changes.  It can be a very useful
tool, but it can be very dangerous.  In fact, law firm malpractice
carriers insist that law firms have metadata scrubbers installed to keep
documents from inadvertently being sent out with secret drafting history
revealed.
In negotiating contracts, track changes can be useful.  The document's
track changes can show who changed what clause and when it was changed.
JAWS allows the user to access this information.  With a certain other
screen reader, this stuff was (and, to my knowledge, still is) totally
inaccessible.
For anyone negotiating a contract, being able to access this kind of
information is crucial.  So, with all our criticisms (including the
video abomination in version 5.0) of Freedom Scientific, JAWS is the
only thing going when it comes to these Word functions.
If you are not operating in the context of sharing a document in this
manner or are not in a collaborative environment (as Chip suggests), you
don't need track changes, and you should stay away from the feature.
If you have used it, then before you email the document, you need to run
it through a "scrubber to "scrub" the metadata.  Word's own feature
really does not scrub the metadata adequately.
 

Ed Marquette
930 West 34th St.
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 561- 7111 

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chip Orange
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:13 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: word problem with Jaws


They allow you to see how a document was changed (and if in a multiple
user colaborative environment, by whom).  That is, they can show you how
it started out and what text was added or deleted to make it as it
currently is, or it can show you how it currently is with the same types
of changes mentioned above.  The changes can be shown inline with the
document text or as comments in the margin.

I don't really think it's useful unless you're in a multi-user
environment, and for a blind person it can be difficult to work with.
It's also a security risk as people can publish such documents without
removing all the changes and thus show the public unintended versions or
authorship.

Hth,

Chip

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> what feature are these track changes?
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> golden
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> > document, press Control + Shift + E to toggle it off again.
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