[Blindmath] Jaws screen reader and missannounced symbols

[George Bell]

Has anyone experienced cases where JAWS reads the wrong symbol description?

We have had a rather awkward case where JAWS said a sign was "degrees", but the braille output was incorrect.

Both teacher and student blamed the braille software as "JAWS said it WAS degrees"

When I got hold of the file, I found that converting the so called "degrees" symbol to Unicode, it was NOT the expected U+00B0, but U+00BA which visually looks like a degree sign.

U+00BA is actually a "Masculine Ordinal Indicator" which is a superscript letter o (as in orange) and used in certain languages. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator if you wish to know more.)

It seems that as this is a common mistake, FS decided to change the name, and had not realised the impact it could have when a document was converted into braille or certain other foreign languages.

Has anyone spotted any similar instances?

BTW, I have reported this to FS and they have admitted the error of their ways.

George