Hi for any body who needs the power point 97 Scripps, well here you go. The self extracting file can be downloaded directly from: ftp://ftp.hj.com/jfwdist/jfw3.2/scripts/BetaScript/powerpnt.exe Below is the documentation written for these Scripps. Enjoy! And to Mr. Joseph Dunn, Thanks! PowerPoint 97 Beta Scripts for JAWS for Windows PowerPoint 97 Scripts for JAWS for Windows 3.2 By Joseph Dunn Build PP321914 Last Modified on 11 December 1998 Introduction Hotkeys Other Features Known Problems Introduction PowerPoint is an extremely visual application and thus offers limited accessibility for creating presentations, nevertheless, these scripts (nearly 2720 lines worth) make it possible to create slides in slide view relatively easily. Due to the nature of PowerPoint, JFW will often tell you information which is not actually displayed on the screen but which describes graphical concepts or animation effects which the sighted user would take for granted. Where possible, descriptive information uses the same jargon as used in the PowerPoint documentation. For example, the box on a slide where a title is entered is called a Title Placeholder. JFW will announce this placeholder even though there is no text on the screen which says the words "title placeholder". Below is a list of the hotkeys and features implemented in this release of the scripts: Hotkeys Insert+f1: Comprehensive Screen Sensitive Help in slide views and important dialogs. Insert+h: Hotkey Help. Control+insert+down: read current slide. This feature describes all the shapes (or embedded objects) on the current slide and reads any associated text. By increasing the verbosity level from beginner to intermediate, you can reduce the amount of descriptive feedback. This feature describes shapes, links (including the method required to activate them), etc. Control+shift+m: Toggles Slide Show monitoring from Don't monitor slide show to say slide titles only to read new slide. When in Slide Show View and a Slide Show is running, as slides change, this feature will read the new slide title as it appears (letting you know the transition has occurred) or it will announce the entry effect followed by the whole slide, or it will say nothing. This is excellent for running a slide show which someone else has designed, hands free. It is also useful when you are presenting a show so you know when the transition has occurred. Note this only works in Slide Show View. Also note that increasing the User Verbosity Level, you can reduce the amount of detail spoken about each slide. Insert+tab: repeats the focused object or shape. Insert+delete: A very powerful keystroke which gives you lots of important information depending on which view you are in. If you are running a slide show then it will tell you the current slide show state, title or name of the current slide, slide layout, slide transition and pointer type. If you are in one of the other views it will tell you the slide view, title or name, slide layout and transition details which would be used if you were running a slide show. Slide layout is determined by the New Slide Dialog and the Slide Layout Option of the Format Menu). The transition details are controlled from the Transition option of the Slide Show Menu. The transition information includes the entry effect used to bring the slide into view as well as the mode in which the slide advances. A slide will either advance by mouse click or by time. You can then tell if you are supposed to press the spacebar (or click the mouse) to advance the show or just wait for the slides to advance automatically. Tab and Shift+tab: moves the selection from shape to shape on a slide (in views supporting the selection of shapes) and reads the newly focused shape. Page Up and Page Down: will take you to the prior or next slide and read the status line containing information about which slide you are on and the total number of slides in the presentation. To bring the first object or shape on the slide into focus, press the tab key. This only works in views which support the selection of shapes. Insert+f8: Lists all the shapes on the current slide in a dialog and allows you to select one. The selected shape will then be actually selected, ie it will have the focus. You can review the shape with Insert+tab. You can also edit the shapes text if it is a place holder of text, by pressing Enter. To get back to the top level to choose another shape, hit escape. Insert+f7: Lists all the hyperlinks on the current slide in a dialog and allows you to select one. The selected hyperlink is then followed, ie you will be taken to the target document or slide. Note you can also just tab to a link and press Enter in views which support shape selection such as the Slide View. All slides containing hyperlinks have one unnamed link which will be identified by JFW as Link1. This link will always take you to the first slide in the presentation. Control+enter: Will follow the hyperlink on the selected shape if it has one. Shift+insert+down: reads the active selection, whether it be a shape, a slide or text. If it is a slide or a shape then only the first slide or shape in the selection range will be spoken. Control+b, I, u, e, l, r: will bold, italicize, underline, center, left justify or right justify selected text. Insert+f: reports the actual font and alignment used for printing the slide in slide view, otherwise it reports the screen font. (This is similar to the behavior of Insert+f in Microsoft Word 97) Insert+f9: Will reread the Spell Checker dialog when performing a spellcheck. Control+insert+f4 will attempt to close the Office Assistant. At times, this will not work and you will be told that the Hide option is disabled. Features To create a slide, make sure PowerPoint is in Slide View. After selecting a new slide layout, select the place holder or other shape you wish to add text to, press enter, add the text and formatting, press Escape and then choose the next shape to edit. To position and size an object on a slide, use the Object option on the Format Menu. All Autoshape and placeholder objects are described (and shown on the Braille display) by JFW. JFW recognizes over 200 objects used in creating presentations. JFW will also read text associated with any shape even if it is scrolling, sideways, rotated, etc. JFW can also describe the entry effect and advance mode of slides when running a slide show. (See insert+delete keystroke) All tooltips will be spoken as you move the mouse pointer over graphics with tooltips. JFW will recognize the following embedded OLE Objects when inserted into a slide: Excel 97 worksheet: When you bring an Excel 97 work sheet into focus by pressing Enter on it from the top level, JFW will automatically read (and display if you have a Braille display) the cell data and coordinates to you as you move around the worksheet just as if you were in Excel. Screen Sensitive Help will tell you that you are in an embedded Excel Worksheet. Excel 97 Chart: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. When you bring it into focus, JFW will not be able to read anything except with the Jaws cursor. Ms Graph 97 Chart: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. When you bring it into focus, JFW will not be able to read anything except with the Jaws cursor. Paint Picture: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. JFW will announce this as a Bitmap Picture. MS Clipart: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. It will announce it as Ms Clipart. Word 97 Document: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. When you bring it into focus, you will be able to move around the document as if you were in Microsoft Word 97. Screen sensitive help will also tell you that you are in an embedded Word 97 Document. Please note that Word tables are not supported yet. PowerPoint 97 Presentation and Slide: JFW will simply announce this object when at the top level. When you bring it into focus, JFW will treat it like a top level presentation or Slide. If you bring any of the above objects into focus from the top level by tabbing to them and hitting Enter, you can get back to the top level by pressing Escape at which point you will be able to tab to other objects on the slide. If JFW does not know what kind of embedded object is on the slide, it will tell you its name and if it doesn't have one, it will tell you which application was used to create the object. Known Problems JFW does not work very well in Outline View. We suggest you use Slide View for all editing. JFW does not work in Slide Sorter View. JFW cannot announce the advance time for a slide transition because it currently converts the data type Single to 0. For this reason it cannot tell you the shape dimensions either. Download PowerPoint Scripts. Beta Scripts for JAWS for Windows. JAWS for Windows Page. Henter-Joyce Home Page. -----Original Message----- From: Beth Hatch-Alleyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:40 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft Power Point >Hello, Kevin. Yes, JAWS will work with PowerPoint, it just may take some >practice to get used to how it works. > > What version of PowerPoint will the person be using? I know more about >the PowerPoint that comes with Office 4.3 then I do Office 97 simply because >the clip art gallery crashes when I try to use it. > > I would advise your client to try reading some existing presentations in >slide view to get a handle on how they read. Presentations can have >bulleted, two column, or graphics among other things in them. The thing I >like about PowerPoint is that it is possible for someonewho is blind to >insert graphics into a slide and not worry about where the picture is. If >you pick the Text with Clip art or clip art with text, for example when >defining the layout for a new slide, you can read the JAWS cursor to tell >you where to add the title and clip art. PwerPoint will say "click to add >title", "click to add text", and "click to add Clipart." Afteryou click >once, your cursor is where it should be. > > You are most welcome to e-mail me privately if I can help you further. >There is a lot to this to put into 1 e-mail message. > >=Beth= >=Beth Hatch-Alleyne= >Justice Means Not Just Us. >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 6:20 PM >Subject: Microsoft Power Point > > >>Hi all, >> >>Can anyone tell me if JFW will work with PowerPoint? If not, any >>similar program with which JFW will work more effectively? We have a >>client here who is interviewing for a job and is supposed to produce >>something to take with her in either powerpoint or Harvard Graphics. >> >> >> >>Kevin Nathan >>Adaptive Technology Specialist >>Idaho Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired >>In State Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>- >>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw >> > >- >Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw > - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
