Hi Christina,
Here is a short article written up by someone, maybe it will help you
some.
The "Track Changes" option in Microsoft Word allows revisions, and their
authors, to be tracked. This is very helpful if a document is edited by
multiple people. This option is also frequently used when instructors
grade
student documents. The document is written as normal. Before the document
is
revised the "Track Changes" option in the Review Tab is turned on. This
can
also be done by pressing Alt + R, G, and G. Any changes that are made to
the
document are shown in red and information on the change and its author are
displayed in the right margin. Word has no problem with you tracking the
changes on your own documents, so you will be able to explore this
yourself.
I am sure that you have noticed that "Track Changes", with its variety of
colors and notes in the document margin seems visual, or JAWS unfriendly.
Fortunately, there are just a few extra steps you will have to go through
to
make JAWS happy with tracking changes.
You can turn on JAWS verbosity for "Track Changes." You need to do the
following:
.Launch Microsoft Word.
.Press Insert + V.
.Move down the Verbosity Dialog Box until you find "Track Changes"
.You can cycle through off, speak type, speak type plus count, speak type
and author, speak type and author plus count, speak type author and date,
and speak type author date plus count by pressing the spacebar.
Tab to Close.
.Press Enter.
Once you have turned on one of the "Track Changes" verbosity options, JAWS
will list information every time you read or edit a document when the MS
Word, "Track Changes", option is checked.
You can also interact with "Track Changes" using the "Revisions" feature
of
JAWS. Once you have opened a document with tracked changes press Insert +
Shift + R. JAWS will create a list of the revisions in the current
document.
This list will contain all of the "Track Changes" information for each
revision. You can just go down the list and select a change you would like
to look at more closely and select "OK". JAWS will skip down to the
location
of that revision.
The track changes options are becoming an important way for multiple
authors
or instructors and students to communicate editing information in a
document. Hopefully, this short article will help the JAWS user take
advantage of these options.
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