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From: glen walker
Date: Jan 7, 2020 12:52PM

Turn on JAWS/NVDA and try resizing objects in powerpoint using the
keyboard. It tells you how far from the edge the object is. You can TAB
to navigate to the different objects in ppt. Unmodified arrow keys move
the object. Shift+arrow resizes the object. Alt+arrow rotates the object.

You could do something similar for cropping, telling the user how big the
image is as you adjust the cropping area.

And I agree having fields, as Jonathan mentioned, is also helpful. In ppt,
I can get to the sizing fields by pressing Alt+JD to get to the Format menu
(when an object is selected) then H or W to get to the height or width
fields.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:11 AM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> In addition to keyboard commands you could use a pane with edit fields
> allowing the user to change values. MS office products have similar
> features for control over object properties. You might also provide
> summary information to help screen reader user know what percent of picture
> was cropped and if image is proportional etc.
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> Jonathan
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