This is from CathyAnne Murtha's book on Word 2013. Hope it
helps.Locating Spelling Errors
JAWS for Windows have streamlined the manner in which documents are
spell checked in Microsoft Word.
The ability to use the spelling and error features of JAWS for
Windows are dependent upon the spelling and grammar error settings of
Word. To insure these are configured properly, follow these steps:
* Open the Office Button (ALT-F)
* Activate the Options button (T)
* DOWN ARROW to "Proofing"
* Press TAB once to access the options on the right side of the display
* Navigate through the options and insure the following two
checkboxes are checked:
o Check spelling as you type
o Mark Grammar errors as you type
* Activate the OK button with SPACEBAR to save the changes
Rather than using the spell checking dialog of Word, the screen
readers offer a fool-proof manner in which to check the document.
The Navigation Quick Keys of JAWS for Windows allow quick navigation
among elements of a Word document. While they are useful throughout
Word, I'll address their use to spell check a document.
Toggle the JAWS Navigation Quick Keys with JAWS KEY-Z. Once the
Quick Keys are enabled, press M and SHIFT-M to navigate among
spelling errors in a Word document.
Focus is placed on the next or previous spelling error. You can
repair the error yourself or allow The Microsoft Word application
menu to assist you in repairing the error.
To use the application menu, press the WINDOWS APPLICATION KEY (the
key to the left of the right CTRL). A list of suggested replacements
is displayed. Navigate the list with UP AND DOWN ARROW. Press ENTER
on a selection to replace the misspelled word with the replacement.
After spell checking the document, disable the Navigation Quick Keys
with JAWS KEY-Z.
At 03:33 PM 4/26/2015, you wrote:
Hi,
after investing in new computer, latest JAWs, and in my job forced to use
Office 2013 on Windows 8, I cannot believe that in 2015 FreedomScientific
have allowed broken spell-check short-cuts to remain as something we just
have to tolerate with the Win8/Office 2013 combination.
Appreciate Microsoft are to be blamed, breaking APIs etc, but surely JAWs
scripting is how we remedy things like this?
Can't Freedom just include scripts to provide the short-cuts for
'change-all, ignore, add to dictionary, etc with their distributions?
For blind users in a professional environment, its more important any aspect
of any feature to help us with ensuring our work is presented as well as
possible is still working, and spell checking being so fundamental seems
high enough a priority to surely dedicate some Freedom Scientific script
writing or bug fixing effort!
Has anyone got work-arounds or perhaps got a script you could send me to get
something working again that was working perfectly fine over the last 18
years???
Yes, I know we can tab through to get to those options, but we need to
optimise/improve the efficiency of these trivial tasks to stand a chance at
keeping our productivity up in a professional environment.
Also, why again in 2015 do 'pic-list' combo lists in MS Excel still not read
out by JAWS 16?
I'm using VB Forms too to make MS Access DB updates, and was told by my UK
JAWS tech support that hardly anyone uses MS Access in the blind community.
Nonsense surely!
Lack of Forms access verbosity settings might suggest a lack of dev effort
from Freedom in this area too. Selecting from combo lists in these forms
with JAWS running kills MS Access too, 25% CPU consumption. With no JAWS,
there is no performance hit when combo selecting. Again, more basic bugs
surely easy to fix!
So, thought I'd email this list to off load my frustrations at finding long
standing features still not working impacting on my ability to do my daily
work in the same way as my sighted colleagues.
Brian
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Brian Anthony
Authorised Distributor N17075
www.savewithbrian.co.uk
Tel: 07446944545
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