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Re: Help using JAWS and Powerpoint
From:
Dick Banks <[log in to unmask]>
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Equal Access to Software & Information <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:07:56 -0500
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Actually if you use the shotcut key CTRL M, that will insert a new slide.

Dick

On 9/28/07, Spiegel, Harriette L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For at least one task, inserting new slide, you need to reach the task pane.
> Thanks, H. L. Spiegel
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Equal Access to Software & Information on behalf of Pranav Lal
> Sent: Thu 9/27/2007 9:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help using JAWS and Powerpoint
>
> Hi,
>
> Why do you need to get access to the task pane? I have created several
> PowerPoint presentations and, have not found a reason to do this. Mind you,
> I have not used to many fancy effects or graphics.
>
> Pranav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Equal Access to Software & Information
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Debi Turner
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Help using JAWS and Powerpoint
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
>
> I have a student who is using JAWS and needs to create a powerpoint
> presentation for her class.
>
> I know that JAWS can read powerpoint presentations, but as I'm preparing to
> help her, I'm finding it difficult to get focus into the task pane area and
> once there, navigating it.
>
> Can anyone provide me with some information on how to do this?
>
> I have keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Powerpoint, but the usual ones to
> change focus aren't working well.
>
> Debi Turner, Assistive Technician
> Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
> Services for Students with Disabilities Office (SSD)
> Room A120, Lakeshore Campus
> 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W.
> Toronto, Ontario
> M8V 1K8
> Tel:   (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268
> Fax:  (416) 252-8800
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come
> alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who
> have come alive."  ~Harold Whitman
>


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Dick Banks
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