Jim,

I've been working with JAWS 4.5 with Excel 2K lately and it has several nice features that allow users to navigate large spreadsheets with speech.  I'd highly recommend making the upgrade if you need to navigate Excel spreadsheets, HTML tables, or Word tables.

Jeff Senge

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rebman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:05 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Excel files


John,

I haven't tried it for myself yet, but I believe JFW 4.5 has several new
hot keys for improved reading and navigation in Excel.

My SMA expired at version 4.x and I have not yet decided if I want to pay
for the 4.5 upgrade -- certainly won't pay for another SMA though.

-- Jim

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James A. Rebman

Cognitive Levers Project
Center for Life-Long Learning and Design
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado, Boulder

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