Your inability to read the text could be due to the way in which the text was created. A quick test is to view the contents of the file in the outline view. If the text does not appear in the outline, you are not going to be able to read it with the screen reader. Text placed in text boxes and some other labeling objects have given screen readers difficulty.
If you have some way to scan hard copy into an OCR package, print the slide show out so that there are 2 slides per page. Then scan the hardcopy into an OCR package. When you are printing out the slide show, you could print as many as 3 slides per page, but I do not recommend any more than that. HTH, Annette -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 2:27 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Selecting Text In PowerPoint Hi Net bat, Thank you for your reply. I have done as you, Brian, & others have suggested & no matter how I try to save the .ppt file, whether it's in .rtf, Outline, .pdf or Word formats, all files come out empty. If they aren't empty Jaws will report Heading... or, new cell... but, not any text at all is read. I don't know if there is a setting that needs to be changed or what but, I must be doing something wrong & I just don't know what it is! Thanks again, take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Negoslav Sabev To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Selecting Text In Powerpoint Change the .pps extention to .ppt and open the file. then you can open the menues and save the file as .rtf. Negoslav ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike B." <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: "Jaws-Users List" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:12 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Selecting Text In Powerpoint > Hi All, > > I have a .PPs file that has 15 slides. Is it possible to select the text > from all 15 slides at 1 time? If so, how would I do it & if not how do I > select the text from the individual slides? I tried using slect all on > the > individual slides using the Jaws append to clipboard feature but, I ended > up > having the text from 1 slide overriding another & got multiple copies of > the > same text in various areas of the Word document I pasted the text into. I > am running Office 2007, XP Home, Jaws 13 & 14. All help will be greatly > appreciated. Thank you all very much. > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
