[Athen] JAWS 11 and Word 2007

[Robert Beach]

Jon,

I just spoke with Denis from FS.  He said the Styles dialog is a known issue and has been fixed in the up-coming release.  It should be out in a couple of weeks.  Interesting that Eric doesn't seem to know about this.  He's been giving me quite the run around.

BTW, in working with my sighted student worker, I realize that there is a difference between the commands: CTRL+SHIFT+S and CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S.  The CTRL+SHIFT+S command (which Eric said is the proper one for 2007) takes you into the Apply Styles box which visually is in the upper left corner of the screen.  It does not have all of the features of the other box.  The ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+S command opens a different box which JAWS simply announces as Styles.  This box is larger and visually located down the right side of the screen.  This is the box I need as it has all of the options, buttons, check boxes, etc.

Oh yes, the command ALT+O, S gives the same results as ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+S.

Okay, that's about as much as I know.  Hopefully the update will fix this for me.


Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS  66112
Phone: 913-288-7671
Fax: 913-288-7678
E-Mail: rbeach at kckcc.edu

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Pielaet, Jon
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:02 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS 11 and Word 2007

Robert,

I am not having that problem with my JAWS 11 installation. You may want to try using the Styles hot-key which is CTRL+ALT++SHIFT+S to get into the styles window. That may help.

I'll keep playing with Word to see if I can replicate your issue, but it seems very strange to me.

Good Luck,

Jon

Jon P. Pielaet
Program Assistant for Instructional Materials
Disability Services for Students
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The University of Montana
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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Robert Beach
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:24 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] JAWS 11 and Word 2007

Hey all,

Is it just me, or is there an issue with JAWS 11 and the Styles window in Word 2007?  On the machines I have JAWS 11 installed on, when I press ALT+O then S to go into the Styles window, focus moves to the window then immediately moves back to the document.  I cannot select any of the styles from the keyboard.  On machines that I'm still running JAWS 10 on, the keyboard access works perfectly.  Any ideas?


Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS  66112
Phone: 913-288-7671
Fax: 913-288-7678
E-Mail: rbeach at kckcc.edu

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