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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 26, 2015 6:34PM

I had issues with this, and with some help discovered that the culprit
was a Jaws verbosity setting for Excel.
If you go into Jaws verbosity settings for Excel (e.g. by pressing
JawsKey-V from an Excel window), type "name" into the search box.
Make sure the override name setting that shows up (the only search
result) is set to "off", not "on".
This totally fixed it for me.
I am checking with FS to see why this setting was set to "off" by
default, because it very much messes with their own help topic on the
subject where they describe how named regions work.
hth
-B


On 1/26/15, Allayne Woodford < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello Kim,
>
> I have only used the Title Region function a few times in the past with JAWS
> 15 but have recently upgraded to JAWS 16. I just did a test on a few
> spreadsheets and found that it will read out either a heading row or column
> but not both. Whether row or column is selected first while holding down the
> control key seems to determine which of the two heading information is read
> out when a TitleRegion name is created.
>
> It doesn't solve your problem but this is my experience with Title Region
> and JAWS 16.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ally Woodford
> Project Manager | Media Access Australia
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