[duxuser] Fw: navigating in Open Office Writer with Jaws
- From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:31:52 -0600
Here are more thoughts about Open Office and why it doesn't seem like the
best procedure for formatting a document for braille, without much time
consuming manual labor. Thanks for your ideas.
Douglas Richard Dexheimer
Chief of Braille Production
Born Again Productions
Friedman Place Room #308
5527 N. Maplewood Avenue
Chicago, Il 60625
(773) - 409 - 6163
drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: "Douglas Richard Dexheimer" <drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:13 PM
Subject: navigating in Open Office Writer with Jaws
Hi. I recently experienced some complications with Microsoft Word, and am
now trying to get the hang of using Open Office Writer. I find it much
harder to access menus and dialogs, edit documents, find and replace,
replace special control characters, etc. like I could do with Word. In
Word I could use special characters to find/replace tabs, carriage
returns, page breaks, etc. This feature doesn't seem handy in Open
Office. When using Find/Replace (Control+f), Jaws doesn't speak the
current control in focus unless I read current line, or read the Focus
display to find the blinking cursor. Control+H doesn't work with Replace;
it's in the Find dialog and I have to press Tab repeatedly to determine
which control has current focus.
Jaws doesn't clearly specify what control or menu item is hightlighted,
and pressing Tab or arrow keys generates no response unless I press
Insert+Up Arrow to read current line.
I tried accessing the help menu in Open Office but haven't found that very
accessible either. Any ideas to make Open Office more accessible with
Jaws (I have 11 and 12, and they both seem to behave similarly), to
navigate in menus and dialogs? Thanks for your input.
Douglas Richard Dexheimer
Chief of Braille Production
Born Again Productions
Friedman Place Room #308
5527 N. Maplewood Avenue
Chicago, Il 60625
(773) - 409 - 6163
drichardd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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