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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


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Ayelet Abraham
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2018 2:14 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessibility of follow changes in word document

Hello,

We have a word document full of changes. My client would like to able to follow these changes and know exactly what was omited and added to the document. We checked the document with jaws 18 and the vocal indication was only of some of the changes which made it unreliable.

Would you have a suggestion what can be done about this? How can we get a full reading of various changes to the document?

Thank you

Ayelet Abraham, PhD
Digital accessibility specialist
Migdal or multi service center for the blind and visualy impaired Israel
Mobile: 972-52-6600765
Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>