Re: accessing embedded video links in Power point slides
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Payal Kapoor
hi Quentin,
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here is my response to the questions you've asked. thought i'd break them up into two parts. Q: When you say link to a video, do you mean a text URL or link on the slide, or do you mean an embedded video? When you activate a link it will open your browser to the specified URL. An embedded video has a preview of the video (a still image, similar to that shown on thumbnails in Youtube etc) with a triangle play button), when you activate it, the video plays there in the slideshow without opening another program. P: There is no real text link, only some image and text saying video. when coppied on to a word doc, it says hyperlink, but, no real URL. i am not sure what that would be ccalled. it is however, not an external source, but links to a folder that has all the relevant videos. i was told it links there and plays. essentially, it is an entire presentation made by sighted folk at my work place that is used for training. i am the first blind person attempting to use it. it contains two different PPTs for two different programmes we run. also, it has other training material we access from within the whole thing. Q: Activating links is a bit problematic and sounds like what you are encountering. To activate a link on a slide, press TAB to move to it - NVDA reports nothing - and then press ENTER. Out of curiosity, since you mentioned trying it with Jaws, did you have trouble with Jaws as well? (That would help narrow down the issue - if it works fine with Jaws, it could be NVDA not responding correctly to the link - if it doesn't work any better with Jaws then it's more likely to be PowerPoint not exposing it correctly). P: I think what you have said about the problem with accessing links is exactly what i'm having trouble with. however, i noticed that when the PPT is in slide mode, where more specifically, i activate the edit mode by pressing enter when in the specific slide, the link appears alongside the video. arrow down to it, choosing the open hyperlink option in the applications menu, voila! the video began playing. i was told that this option cannot be used when making a presentation, since it is not visually appealing or as good as it is in the presentation mode. the presentation mode won't show me a link,and when pressing enter there brings a prompt saying-no pointer available; choose a pointer. back to the application menu, but this time, all the pointer options do nothing. JAWS did nothing different either. in fact, NVDA allowed me to see the link; JAWS didn't. that might also be due to the old version of JAWS i have installed on my laptop. also, could you tell me how can i copy the contents of the slides, so i have it in a word doc to refer as notes rather than opepning the PPT eacj time? i did try the universal copy paste command, but strangely nothing showed up. this is definitely a deterrent in being able to run presentations visually for sighted folk when training. i hope we find a resolution to it soon enough. thanks for the help. Best, Payal
On 12/2/19, Quentin Christensen <quentin@...> wrote:
When you say link to a video, do you mean a text URL or link on the slide,
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