[Athen] screen readers other than jaws? powerpoint access

[Pratik Patel]

Hello, 
 
NVDA's support for Powerpoint is nonexistent at this point. It supports
Word, Outlook and Excel quite well. As I understand, the Powerpoint support
is on the roadmap for near future.
 
Regards,
 
Pratik
 
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[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 2:39 PM
To: ea at emptech.info
Cc: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: RE: [Athen] screen readers other than jaws? powerpoint access
 
Thanks EA
Powertalk is not a tool to make PowerPoint more accessible when editing
presentations. It automatically narrates presentation text when giving a
presentation
The concept of Powertaalk is it lets you run any presentation as usual using
Powerpoint and it reads the text as it appears. When you run PowerTalk it
simply starts PowerPoint and passes text to Windows SAPI Text to Speech
(TTS). That way it handles any language, assuming you have suitable voice
installed. YOur presentation can contain anythig you like - Powertalk only
gets interested in the text.
You can use Sounds or recorded annotation (which are audio) on your
presentation, but there is no syncronisation so it is possible the PowerTalk
TTS naration will clash. You should be able to minmise that with careful
design of your slides
NVDA works well with IBM symphony but not as well with OpenOffice or
LibreOffice. However now OpenOffice has enteredthe Apache incubatin process
it's very likely the required support for tools such as NVDA will be
included. I don't know about MS Office as the accessibility glue is
differeent. but you can no doubt find out on he NVDA site or community. 
I hope that helps.
Steve Lee
OpenDirective - opendirective.com
On Jan 8, 2012 6:55 PM, "E.A. Draffan" <ea at emptech.info> wrote:
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