[JAWS-Users] Smartart
Hi all, I am a new member to the group, and am a mother of a 9 year old totally blind bright kid. He has been a jaws user at various levels since the age of 4. In school he needs to make several diagrams and I was trying to use smart art for food cycle and pyramid diagram. I saw that it is pretty simple to create these diagrams using keyboard commands, and happens really beautifully. However, when I went to read the diagram, I found that jaws only said graphic of size? Does any version of jaws support such smart art reading as in table reading commands. Will jaws read as a food cycle- object 1 grass, object 2 rabbit, object 3 lion?? Was wondering since all data is available, since that's how we created it in the first place. Eager to hear from you. Thanks and regards, Ruchi Sent from my iPhone For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
Hi, To my knowledge, Jaws does not work with pictures. I tried using paint once, just to find out if Jaws could do anything, but none of these programs work. It would be good if Jaws could read diagrams and anything else of that nature. Alana - Original Message - From: Ruchi Patil To: "jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com" Date sent: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:56:05 +0530 Subject: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi all, I am a new member to the group, and am a mother of a 9 year old totally blind bright kid. He has been a jaws user at various levels since the age of 4. In school he needs to make several diagrams and I was trying to use smart art for food cycle and pyramid diagram. I saw that it is pretty simple to create these diagrams using keyboard commands, and happens really beautifully. However, when I went to read the diagram, I found that jaws only said graphic of size? Does any version of jaws support such smart art reading as in table reading commands. Will jaws read as a food cycle- object 1 grass, object 2 rabbit, object 3 lion?? Was wondering since all data is available, since that's how we created it in the first place. Eager to hear from you. Thanks and regards, Ruchi Sent from my iPhone 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
I tried using smartart for food chain diagrams and hierarchy diagrams and organizational chart diagrams. Works reasonably well to create the diagrams, however, while reading it reads as diagram size. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alana Jovanovski Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 7:14 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi, To my knowledge, Jaws does not work with pictures. I tried using paint once, just to find out if Jaws could do anything, but none of these programs work. It would be good if Jaws could read diagrams and anything else of that nature. Alana - Original Message - From: Ruchi Patil 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
Why not get the available "raised line" drawing kit from American Printing house for the blind. You can then do the drawing of the diagram and there you go. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ruchi Patil Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 10:12 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart I tried using smartart for food chain diagrams and hierarchy diagrams and organizational chart diagrams. Works reasonably well to create the diagrams, however, while reading it reads as diagram size. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alana Jovanovski Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 7:14 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi, To my knowledge, Jaws does not work with pictures. I tried using paint once, just to find out if Jaws could do anything, but none of these programs work. It would be good if Jaws could read diagrams and anything else of that nature. Alana - Original Message - From: Ruchi Patil 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
I saw or felt of that at the NFB here in Dallas, that is really cool kit! - Original Message - From: "John R Vaughn" To: Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Why not get the available "raised line" drawing kit from American Printing house for the blind. You can then do the drawing of the diagram and there you go. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ruchi Patil Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 10:12 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart I tried using smartart for food chain diagrams and hierarchy diagrams and organizational chart diagrams. Works reasonably well to create the diagrams, however, while reading it reads as diagram size. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alana Jovanovski Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 7:14 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi, To my knowledge, Jaws does not work with pictures. I tried using paint once, just to find out if Jaws could do anything, but none of these programs work. It would be good if Jaws could read diagrams and anything else of that nature. Alana - Original Message - From: Ruchi Patil 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
You would have to be able to label the graphics in such a way that JAWS can get the label information, somewhat as it's done on web pages. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ruchi Patil Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 10:12 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart I tried using smartart for food chain diagrams and hierarchy diagrams and organizational chart diagrams. Works reasonably well to create the diagrams, however, while reading it reads as diagram size. -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Alana Jovanovski Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 7:14 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi, To my knowledge, Jaws does not work with pictures. I tried using paint once, just to find out if Jaws could do anything, but none of these programs work. It would be good if Jaws could read diagrams and anything else of that nature. Alana - Original Message - From: Ruchi Patil 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Smartart
Hello Ruchi, It is possible to read the pyramid and cycle smart art with JAWS, albeit not easily or efficiently. Here are a couple things you might try. I am using Word 2010, JAWS 13 and Windows 7 64-bit so the following information is for Word 2010. If you move the PC cursor on to the object JAWS identifies it as a slash. You can select the object by using shift with right arrow key or by using CTRL+Shift+O to list objects and then using up or down arrow key to the one you want and pressing enter key. At this point you can add Alt text so the object will be better identified when moving the cursor on to it. If you want to do that then with the object selected press the application key or shift with F10 to bring up the context menu. Arrow down to the "format text" menu option and press enter key. Press the letter A until you get to the Alt text choice. Use tab key to move to the Title and Description fields and fill them in. Tab to OK and press spacebar. When you use CTRL+Shift+O to list the objects and use arrow keys in the list you should hear whatever you used as the description after adding the alternate text. After selecting the object by either using shift with right arrow or pressing enter on a choice in the list of objects obtained by using CTRL+Shift+O, use the application key to bring up the context menu. Use down arrow key to the menu item just under the "change layout" item. If it says "show text" then press enter key. If it says "hide text checked" then press enter key, press application key again without deselecting the object, use down arrow key and the "show text" option should be available. Press enter key. Sometimes, focus will move directly into the text pane but not very often. However, the text pane is shown as a dialog. You might need to route JAWS cursor to PC cursor, use down arrow until you hear the first part of the list of items, and then simulate the left mouse button click on the keyboard. Focus will then be in the list. After turning PC cursor back on you should then be able to use up and down arrow keys in the list of items and the levels should be announced. The first level is 0. To dismiss the text pane use Alt with spacebar and choose the Close menu item. This seems quite complicated. Being that it is possible to move into the text pane and hear the items read, I don't think that scripting and making the process more efficient would be too difficult. Perhaps even some VB code could be written to make it easier. Take care. Brian Lee brianl...@charter.net -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Ruchi Patil Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 5:26 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Smartart Hi all, I am a new member to the group, and am a mother of a 9 year old totally blind bright kid. He has been a jaws user at various levels since the age of 4. In school he needs to make several diagrams and I was trying to use smart art for food cycle and pyramid diagram. I saw that it is pretty simple to create these diagrams using keyboard commands, and happens really beautifully. However, when I went to read the diagram, I found that jaws only said graphic of size? Does any version of jaws support such smart art reading as in table reading commands. Will jaws read as a food cycle- object 1 grass, object 2 rabbit, object 3 lion?? Was wondering since all data is available, since that's how we created it in the first place. Eager to hear from you. Thanks and regards, Ruchi Sent from my iPhone For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > From: ruchi_pa...@samruddha.net > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Smartart > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 05:26:05 -0700 > > Hi all, > > I am a new member to the group, and am a mother of a 9 year old totally > blind bright kid. He has been a jaws user at various levels since the age of > 4. > > In school he needs to make several diagrams and I was trying to use smart > art for food cycle and pyramid diagram. I saw that it is pretty simple to > create these diagrams using keyboard commands, and happens really > beautifully. > > However, when I went to read the diagram, I found that jaws only said > graphic of size? Does any version of jaws support such smart art reading as > in table reading commands. Will jaws read as a food cycle- object 1 grass, > object 2 rabbit, object 3 lion?? Was wondering since all data is available, > since that's how we created it in the first place. > > Eager to hear from you. > > Thanks and regards, > Ruchi > > Sent from my iPhone > > For answers to frequently asked questions ab
