Hi Jason,
I have now upgraded to Jaws 18, but I am not getting the results you get. I
can get to the footer area in both ways as you describe. Once in the footer
edit area, text is not spoken as I type, and nothing is readable in the
field.
Then if I exit the footer dialogue and use insert-F1, I know that footer
text was entered. Going back in to edit, I again cannot hear anything in
terms of what the footer text is.
I also can't seem to find ribbon controls for adding date, time, etc.
On this same topic, can you go under Layout and insert a section break and
see if you can unlink it from other document sections? I can't identify the
button to do that either.
The good thing is that you can do this. I just have to figure out why I
can't.
I'm using Office 365, if that might be different.
Jean
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason White
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 9:13 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 17, Word 2016 and footers
I'm trying to test this with JAWS 18, Windows 10 and Word 2016.
I can edit a footer by typing Alt+N, O, E. Alternatively, I can work my way
through the Insert tab of the ribbon to find this command (Insert ->
Footer ->
Edit Footer).
At this point (having invoked the above command), I'm in a footer field into
which I can type text or edit existing text. While editing the footer, there
are commands in the ribbon to insert the time and date, document
information,
etc.
JAWS is reading everything as expected.
Are your steps different from mine? If not, this might have been fixed in
JAWS
18 or in a Microsoft Word update. I'm running Word 2016 Pro Plus as
downloaded
from Office365, so it's always kept up to date.
Jean Menzies <jemenz...@shaw.ca> wrote:
I’m using Word 2016 and Jaws 17.0.2619.
I want to create documents with page footers. Each page needs its own
unique footer. I know how to get to the footer dialogue, but Jaws doesn’t
read any of the text in the dialogue as I type or as it appears. Outside
of the dialogue, I can use insert F1 to hear document info, but this is a
tedious way to check footers, and doesn’t allow for editing, etc.
Is there a solution for this? It used to work in previous versions of Word
and Jaws.
Jean
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