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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 9, 2018 12:25PM

JAWS has keyboard commands to list revisions and comments.

Open Virtual Viewer and view list of comments, footnotes, endnotes, or revisions in

Use these when in SayAll:
Next Revision (when using Track Changes) R
Next Comment N

Use these when editing text:
List Comments Ctrl + Shift + Apostrophe
List Revisions JawsKey + Shift + R

If you have Track Changes set to Simple Markup, this will not work with adaptive technology. You need to set the Track Changes to Show All Markup.

I would also advise only having Comments in balloons.

I've written a tutorial on using Track Changes with the keyboard and adaptive technology:
http://www.karlencommunications.com/OfficeForWindowsAccessibility.html

Get a list of links and look for Track Changes, Comments and Comparing Documents.

I use JAWS 18 and I use Track Changes all the time.

Cheers, Karen