Category: Cram Session
Hello all can you tell me how you did a powerpoint? I have to do one and think that be fine but have to do it in class please tell me how I sure do this? sure I do it and then ask the teacher to work the computer for me? and have notes on my notetaker? please let me know Erica.
I used Microsoft 2007. I found that jaws 12 and 2007 works very well. It's easy with the virtual ribbon now. I had help printing out the pictures from a teacher. I'm still in high school, and I'm transfering to a 4-year after 1-2 years at a comunity college. Jaws does a good job on reading slides. I had trouble learning the interface of the program first. I wrote the notes that I was going to put on my powerpoint in a microsoft work file, and put into the slides...
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refer with blindcooltech.com I've seen there are many tutorials there.
Raaj
powpoint is a bitch with jaws..
It's doable with JAWS. You would definitely do well to have a reader look it over and see if things need to be reformatted in your slides, especially when it comes to picture placement after you're done putting it together. Good luck.
And as for typing in the text, if you can type in these edit boxes, you're more than capable of handling putting text into Powerpoint And, proofread for grammar and spelling errors..
I have a certification in power point and did not need a reader to study fore my certification. Well heck I have a certifaction in office 2003 yes! I still use and I have 6 of them. Any way powerpoint is very duable.
..this may seems totally like dumb on my part
only yto say
moving this topic forward
with a brief sidebar note
Jaws is like not the MOIVE JAWS
it is like some working machine of like
Braille, the language of the blind..
This is something I know little of
Interest personally in Power Point Presentations.
Thanks
hmm....., it's definitely doable. can you er... bring a computer in to class and stuff?
Hi Erica, okay, obviously it's been a fortnight since you posted this question, but perhaps this information will help you in the future, regardless of whether or not you've found a solution.
I used to do PowerPoint a lot when I had more vision, but when I lost a ton of it, as well as my 19-inch Phillips upon conversion to a laptop, I never touched it. However, I was working on a recent project in Word that was quite frustrating and decided I wanted to learn how to send notes to a PowerPoint document. Here's an article on how to do that, although it may be a bit antequated depending on which version of Word you're using. Nevertheless, it should hopefully be fairly uniform across the board. As far as the visual bells and whistles, you might enlist sighted assistance.
Now, if you are required to work on a computer that does not have a screenreader installed, you may try putting NVDA on a thumb-drive. The reason I say this is because, if you have JAWS or Window-Eyes, I can't speak for JAWS, but for WE, installation of a driver is required, whereas NVDA works right away, allowing you to access the machine more independently. Also, compatibility between your screenreader-gone-mobile (such as Win-Eyes) and the school computer may be an issue. For example, your home computer may run as 32-bit, and thus so will your screenreader; but your computer at school may be 64-bit, which would pose a problem. If you know your home and school systems run on the same bit-whatever it's called (I'm not exactly a tech genius), then you could mobilize your screenreader on a thumb-drive and use that.
Hopefully this made sense. Lol good luck!
jaws works with powerpoint very well, you just have to use menus and stuff and learn how to work the program.