Hi all,


Has the method for creating and editing PowerPoint slides changed recently?


I use PowerPoint to make and show slides. They're nothing fancy, and I 
don't do it everyday, but I create or revise one or two presentations 
most semesters. Since I teach a lot of first-year composition, I have a 
presentation on MLA documentation that I've shown every semester for the 
last five years, and I tweak this presentation most semesters by adding, 
cutting, moving, or editing slides. I know I added a slide last 
semester, and I'm 90% sure I revised a couple of slides early this 
semester.


Anyway,this evening, I decided to add a couple more slides, but Jaws 17, 
NVDA, and Narrator aren't helping. In the past, what I've done is this:


* Press alt+n to go into the Insert menu.


* Press enter on New slide.

* Press enter on the option that says something about the slide having a 
title and a content field.


To this point, everything is working.


* Depending on where I am, I either just type the title or I hit tab 
once, then type the title. I may have to press enter to go into a sort 
of forms mode.


This step also works, but I can't always read the text in the edit 
field, like to edit or proofread the title. I'm not sure why I can 
sometimes read the title, but not others.


* Press Escape and hit tab once to exit forms mode and move to the 
object edit field, where the bulletted list goes. In some versions of 
PowerPoint, I've had to hit ctrl+tab or F6, but I think both were a long 
time ago.


This step is not working. Most of the time, focus seems to get stuck in 
the title edit field, and escape, tab, ctrl+tab, and F6 don't get me 
out. When I do manage to get to the object field, I'm not able to read 
the text (like to edit or proofread it), and even when both things do 
work, I often discover that the bulleted list is in the title field, not 
where it belongs.


What's changed, and how do I work with this? I'm using Windows 10 and 
PowerPoint 2016. As I said earlier, I've used this combination 
successfully before, and I'm having roughly the same experience with 
Jaws 17, the current NVDA, and the current Narrator.


Any wisdom?


Ciao


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