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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Teresa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Don’t miss that the reading order is bottom up in the Selection pane, not top down like you’d expect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">-Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Teresa Haven<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 07, 2014 3:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list@u.washington.edu)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Reading Order in MS PowerPoint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings, all. I’m attempting to retrofit a PPT presentation created by a colleague who, until recently, was unfamiliar with accessibility needs. This particular presentation has been a work in progress for many years and across many
versions of PPT. One slide in particular has a lot of separate text elements that need to be read in order to make sense; when listening to it initially with JAWS, just a couple of items were read out of order so I attempted to clean that up (am in Office
2010 for Windows); according to Microsoft’s help site I should fix the reading order using Arrange>Selection Pane. When I viewed the reading order it was NOTHING like what I was hearing with JAWS – it looked completely random, despite the fact that JAWS was
doing a pretty good job with the page. Well, I “fixed” the reading order in Selection Pane and now the slide is read as complete gibberish by JAWS – nothing is in order. Yes, I still have a copy of the original file and can go back, or I can re-create the
slide from scratch, but does anyone have a suggestion for how to reliably repair reading order in PPT slides?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your ideas,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teresa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Teresa Haven, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Accessibility Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Northern Arizona University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(928) 523-6042<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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