[gui-talk] Microsoft Word workaround recommendations

[Jonathan Cohn]

The JAWS skim reading tool is perfect for this assuming they really
highlighted in red and not auburn.. I you set up a rule like paragraphs in
bold, and then you can read the first sentence of each paragraph. Hot key
forward and back, and I believe get a list of matches.

Let me know if you need me to pull up the relevant documentation.

Best Wishes,

On 25 August 2017 at 07:44, Hoffman, Allen via gui-talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> wrote:

> Often I get documents for review or comment which say things like:
>
> Priority items highlighted in red, or <insert color>.
>
> Does anyone have a suggested method for quickly flagging such highlighted
> text in Word and reading it?  Kind of like track changes I find this
> process pretty annoying as what's really needed is some heuristics to read
> the changes while preserving context without getting so lost in the
> details.  I realize I can ask for attributes of text but I need to hear the
> highlighted text in some way with context when possible, e.g. if
> highlighted text is in a paragraph what would be nice is read the paragraph
> and then identify the hightlighted portion, or at my request the other way
> around.
>
>
> Of course I realize requesting accessible version of such materials is
> always an option where author actually marks up the segments in an
> accessible way, but in real world this request isn't always feasible within
> the time constraints available.
>
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