Thank you. I'm making some progress, but am still confused and I may not have explained my problem clearly enough.
The instructions I have from the Access Technology Institute textbook seem to differ from yours. The ones I have to access the quick access toolbar are to press ALT, arrow up once. Then to right or left arrow to navigate among the choices. It goes on to say that save is 1, undo is 2 and redo last action is 3. JAWS is not speaking any of these numbers and the only way I've found so far to hear JAWS speak the shortcut keys is to route JAWS to PC when focus is placed on the item in the quick access toolbar. I discovered that paste special has a shortcut of Control-Alt-V which is helpful and will save me from going into the quick access toolbar if I can remember it, but I want to be comfortable with the feature. When I'm in the Quick Access Toolbar, from what the textbook says, I'm expecting to hear JAWS say something like "1 Save" "2 Undo" 3 redo last action" when I left or right arrow among the default options and the only indication I found so far about what number goes with which action is from the text book. Do I have to configure anything in JAWS to hear them or are the numbers only heard after customizing the quick access toolbar? ALT plus 1 works to save, so the numbers associated with the items are there-I'm just not hearing them. Isn't JAWS supposed to say something like "Paste Special Control-Alt-V" when focus is on the item in the quick access toolbar? Thank you, Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ishe Chinyoka" <chinyoka.consult...@gmail.com> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Quick Access Toolbar Word 2007 Hi, If you go to the ribbon, and press Tab or shift+Tab to the Quick Access toolbar, you will hear JAWS telling you of the menu item, followed by the shortcut keys, and then the Alt+Number. For example, if you have on your quick access the Font... as the fourth item, you can easily access it by Alt+4. It only takes an alt key plus the position of the function you wish to access. Hope this helps. Ishe We all have the right to be wrong in our opinions but not in our facts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Thomas" <iluvtor...@cox.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 3:44 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Quick Access Toolbar Word 2007 > Hi All, > > I have a couple of questions about working with the Quick Access Toolbar > in > Word 2007 using JAWS and XP Home with SP3 and hope maybe someone can help > make my life a little easier. > > > The textbook I have indicates that at least the default items in the quick > access toolbar are numbered. JAWS 10 here doesn't speak any numbers and I > have to arrow to the items and hit enter to select what I want in the > quick > access toolbar. I hit ALT and up arrow to get to it. > > > I successfully added paste special to the quick access toolbar and was > wondering if additions are supposed to be numbered so I could just press 4 > or whatever from within the quick access tool bar instead of arrowing to > press special since I use the command a lot? > > > The textbook was written with JAWS 10 in mind and if JAWS is supposed to > speak numbers in the quick access toolbar, how do I go about getting it to > do it? I might want to add other items, but don't want to have to re-do > everything. > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. > > Margaret > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
