Power Point presentation access
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ely.r@...
Afternoon All, In the past, I have had make a good number of Power Point presentations. I could edit them with a screen reader, but I could not have any of them speak the presentation as I used it. I then found a small free app called Power Talk. It would speak each slide as it was presented. It would even read alt tags with descriptions of graphics. It started as a project on Source forge. I can still find it, but it will not work with Power Point 365. It is not clear if it is the program or Windows 10 that are the culprit. Does anyone on the list know of a similar app? Thanks for ideas, Rick
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Rick,
I am able to read presentations including alternative text tags in Powerpoint with NVDA without problems. No third party program needed.
Pranav
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Domingos de Oliveira <domingos20000@...>
Hi,
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if you change into the presentation Mode with F5, NVDA reads the whole slide. You then have to press Return to turn to the next slide. HTH 2017-12-06 1:34 GMT+01:00, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@gmail.com>:
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ely.r@...
Thanks for this. I was in touch with the Microsoft Accessibility Team. They sent suggestions along using Narrator. However, even in the overview of that process, it was stated that Narrator would not work in presentation mode.
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I will give this a try, Rick
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Domingos de Oliveira via Groups.Io Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 6:41 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Power Point presentation access Hi, if you change into the presentation Mode with F5, NVDA reads the whole slide. You then have to press Return to turn to the next slide. HTH 2017-12-06 1:34 GMT+01:00, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@gmail.com>: Rick, -- Domingos de Oliveira - Online-Redakteur Karthäuserstraße 13 53129 Bonn Telefon: 017632245129 Web: www.oliveira-online.net www.netz-barrierefrei.de Mail: domingos20000@googlemail.com USt-ID: DE273231108
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Quentin Christensen
Which version of Office are you using? Certainly in recent versions, NVDA should work fine in presentation mode. One big trick to look out for however, is when creating a slideshow, you can set bullet point "animations" where each bullet point (or other object on a slide) only appears as you press enter / right arrow etc. This works visually, but NVDA reads the whole slide as soon as it loads. The best workaround at this stage is ideally to not use animations for now (slide transitions are a separate thing - they control how each slide appears or replaces the last, and they are fine) or to use them consistently, press control as soon as each slide loads, and then as you press enter to load each bullet, press down arrow to have NVDA read you the line.
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:37 AM, <ely.r@...> wrote: Thanks for this. I was in touch with the Microsoft Accessibility Team. They sent suggestions along using Narrator. However, even in the overview of that process, it was stated that Narrator would not work in presentation mode. --
Quentin Christensen Training and Support Manager Official NVDA Training modules and expert certification now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess Twitter: @NVAccess
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ely.r@...
Knowing this, I will use your suggestions and see how it works. I have a totally blind friend who is a JAWS user and who will be teaching a course at a local community college and wants to use the previous instructors Power Point presentations. I have not had access to these, so who knows what is on the slides. I’ll see if she will send me a sample. Not sure if she would want to try NVDA, but sounds like the one way she may have that access. Again, thanks Rick
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Which version of Office are you using? Certainly in recent versions, NVDA should work fine in presentation mode. One big trick to look out for however, is when creating a slideshow, you can set bullet point "animations" where each bullet point (or other object on a slide) only appears as you press enter / right arrow etc. This works visually, but NVDA reads the whole slide as soon as it loads. The best workaround at this stage is ideally to not use animations for now (slide transitions are a separate thing - they control how each slide appears or replaces the last, and they are fine) or to use them consistently, press control as soon as each slide loads, and then as you press enter to load each bullet, press down arrow to have NVDA read you the line.
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:37 AM, <ely.r@...> wrote:
-- Quentin Christensen
Official NVDA Training modules and expert certification now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess
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ely.r@...
Sorry, I didn’t answer your question. I am running Office 365.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Which version of Office are you using? Certainly in recent versions, NVDA should work fine in presentation mode. One big trick to look out for however, is when creating a slideshow, you can set bullet point "animations" where each bullet point (or other object on a slide) only appears as you press enter / right arrow etc. This works visually, but NVDA reads the whole slide as soon as it loads. The best workaround at this stage is ideally to not use animations for now (slide transitions are a separate thing - they control how each slide appears or replaces the last, and they are fine) or to use them consistently, press control as soon as each slide loads, and then as you press enter to load each bullet, press down arrow to have NVDA read you the line.
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:37 AM, <ely.r@...> wrote:
-- Quentin Christensen
Official NVDA Training modules and expert certification now available: http://www.nvaccess.org/shop/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NVAccess
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