That's interesting, and thanks. But it seems to bring up either comments or changes, not both at once. And unfortunately it's doesn't stay open for an alt+tab. I'm using Office 2010, if that matters,

Tim, thanks for your reply. I've been digging into this tonight, and here's what I've found. First, Windows+; is an excellent tip, thanks for posting it. I can also do insert+shift+r to bring up a lis

Hi all. I'm using current JAWS 16 and MS Office 2010. In the ribbon UI, "Home" tab, "Cells" submenu, there is a "Format" drop down button, and on the drop down menu there is an option "AutoFit Column

Thanks, everyone. Now here's a slightly related question. MS has their own keyboard interface for the ribbon UI, as in "Alt then H, O, I". But you can also turn on the JAWS rinnon UI to make the ribbo

The common case would be to select the whole column, with ctrl + spacebar. You could also select the current data region with ctrl + shift + 8 (in other words, control + asterisk), in which case multi

Hey guys, thanks for the discussion and info. It's good to know that first letter navigation works with the virtual ribbon. I'll give that a try and see if it weans me off the MS ribbon interface. Whi

I cleared the quick access toolbar of its defaults, then added the following commands: - Previous change or comment. - Next change or comment. - Accept revision. - Reject revision. In that order, so y

Hi all. I'm having trouble navigating popup windows in IE. As an example, go to facebook.com, turn off the virtual PC cursor with INSERT+Z, then hit the question mark key. This opens a popup window co

Virtualizing the window! Interesting suggestion, thanks. When I bring up the keyboard shortcuts popup, then try to virtualize the window, JAWS says "Virtualizing is unavailable when forms mode is acti

Hm. I downloaded the MS Windows Google Docs app, and that lets me view my Google Docs directory as if it were a part of the Windows filesystem (that is, I can access Google Docs files using Windows Ex

Hi Kimberly. Thanks for re-posting this. Lauren, as some additional info, try the following: While in MS Word, hit INSERT+F1 twice quickly. This opens up the JAWS help topic specific to the MS Word ap

Hi all. I'm working with a client using Office 2003 and the current version of JAWS. The client is having trouble accessing email attachments. I've never used JAWS with Office 2003, so I'm unsure how

I missed the start of this discussion, but... As near as I can tell, facebook is accessible through Internet Explorer. Turn off the virtual PC cursor and use the page's keyboard shortcuts to move thro

This is interesting, as it sounds like my client's Outlook 2003 isn't behaving as it does for other posters here on the list. But I did collect a few tips from your posts, thanks. I'll try them out, n

Here is the facebook accessibility page: https://www.facebook.com/help/141636465971794/ I went to the heading "Accessibility Basics", then arrowed down to the button labeled "How can I navigate Facebo

Thanks, Harry. Yes, that was going to be my fallback plan if I couldn't find a better way. Unfortunately, the client I'm working with is not very adept with computer technology. Saving attachments to

Here's a way to show nitification area icons in Windows 7. It probably works in Windows 8, too, and I think it's more straightforward than the methods I've seen described so far on this thread. 1. Ope

There is a mailing list for JAWS scripting: http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts I intend to learn scripting in the near future, as soon as I can clear some time to work on it. I have made a livi

Hi all. Sorry to bring this up again, but I've been having trouble getting to the list of notifications. According to the facebook accessibility help page, I should be able to press ALT + 5, then ENTE

Hi all. Another facebook accessibility questions. Once I go to someone else's timeline or facebook page (anything other than my own timeline, actually), how do I quickly navigate through the posted ne