[blindlaw] JAWS and track changes

[Jack Chen]

Word 2003 (and perhaps prior versions) has four modes for track changes, 
Final showing markup, final, original, and original showing markup.  Final 
shows the changes after they have been applied.  Original shows the original 
text.  Both final showing markup and original showing markup show text with 
the proposed changes.  You may toggle between the different versions by 
selecting the appropriate menu on the track changes toolbar.  I typically do 
this by using the Jaws cursor and looking in the toolbar section for the 
words "final showing markup" "final" "original" or "original showing 
markup."  Clicking on this pulls up a menu that you may use the up and down 
arrows to scroll through to find the necessary mode.

In terms of reading the changes, the text is highlighted according to 
preferences set by Word or by the editor.  For example, my deletions are in 
red with strike through as the attribute while my insertions are blue with 
underline.  Reading line by line or using say all will read the track 
changes.  For finer detail, the arrow keys may be used to discover the exact 
changes.  You may usually read the changes by using the "attributes and 
colors" speech profile in the "speech and sounds" menu in the configuration 
manager.  Unfortunately, setting this profile sometimes requires Jaws to be 
restarted in order to have the profile become active.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ford, Tim (DHS-OLS)" <TFord at dhs.ca.gov>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] JAWS and track changes


>I personally would appreciate greatly a set  of instructions on this; I
> find the track changes very hard to follow, especially to figure out
> what has been deleted.  I have it down on how to read what the text is
> proposed to be, but cannot figure out how to read how it was before the
> change.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Jack Chen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] JAWS and track changes
>
> Yes, I use it all of the time.
>
> I can be reached at mrjackchen at hotmail.com jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
> To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:44 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] JAWS and track changes
>
>
>
>
> Is anyone on this list using JAWS to read documents marked up by other
> parties using track changes in Word.
>
> Another blind attorney who is not on this list is looking for someone to
> tell her how to do it!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Noel
>
>
>
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