moderated Re: Options dialog boxes in Office 365
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Dean Martineau <topdot@...>
All I know to do about this is to learn the alt+ key shortcut for any options you plan to change often, then you can probably hit that key once you’ve tabbed into the page for that category. To my knowledge, no other screen reader will help, it’s just how the Options pages are constructed now.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Groups.Io
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 11:47 AM To: JFW list (main@jfw.groups.io) <main@jfw.groups.io> Subject: Options dialog boxes in Office 365
I switched to Office 365 and also to JAWS sometime around the beginning of 2018. Before that I was a Window Eyes user. I have noticed something about how JAWS reads the choices in the Options dialog box for all Office products that I find challenging. I’m not sure if this started when I started using one of these products or with an update to one of them. I’d like to know if others have found a way to change this behavior or if others agree that it is challenging and warrants a change request to Freedom Scientific. Here’s the issue:
Use Alt F, then T to open the Options dialog box. Arrow up and down to select a panel of options. From here, we tab through all the choices for that group of options. Microsoft has these choices on each panel arranged in groups with headings. As I tab, JAWS is reading the heading before each option. In some cases the heading is long, so I have to wait to hear the whole heading before I know which option I’m on. Some panels, like the mail options panel in Outlook have a really long list of choices, so it’s a really tedious process to get to the option I want to change if ti’s far down in the list. This used to not be the case, but I don’t’ recall when I noticed the change.
What are other’s opinions of this behavior? Robin Windows 10, Office 365, JAWS 2019
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