Sorry to be coming in so late on this discussion. I've had success getting row and column titles read and ported from one document to another though I will have to do some digging to recall what I did to make it work. I'm using windows 7, jaws 15 and excel 2013.
Kimber On 12/28/14, Ed Marquette via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > That you are having the problems you mention is discouraging > indeed. On this list, several months back, I asked almost exactly > the same question, albeit for Windows 7, an earlier version of > JAWS (the then current version), and Excel 2010. > The nearly unanimous view was that the JAWS instructions worked > fine in Excel 2003, but would not work in Excel 2010. We were > told that Freedom Scientific was aware of the problem. > That you are encountering almost identical problems in a newer > operating system, in a newer version of Excel, and with a newer > version of JAWS is less than inspiring. > Excel is a crucial mainstream application, and the function you > have described, naming column headers, is vital. > Freedom Scientific has known about this problem for way longer > than it should have taken to fix it. > Very discouraging. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann > Byrne via Jfw > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 7:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Reading column/row titles in Excel > > JAWS 16, windows 8.1, Excel 2013. I believe I have followed the > instructions for naming column titles with JAWS, *not using > control-alt-insert-c. I want to be able to save-as my document > and have the column title announcement carry to the new document. > if someone has made this work, please send me step-by-step > instructions. I think I am step-by-stepping according to the JAWS > training materials, but my column titles are not being announced. > > Thanks, > > Ann > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
