[Blindtlk] Spanish with JAWS

[Ringlein, Ellen]

Hello Anna,

In my experience, Jaws switches to reading another language, if the language in the word document changes. I think you can do this under the file menu under options. There is a language setting. You can't set the whole document to one language, since JAWS will then read stuff wrong. The language will have to be changed, whenever the language changes in the text. This is probably something that should be done by the folks preparing the document for you. People reading the document visually won't notice this issue. Only those of us using screen readers do.

Ellen



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Subject: [Blindtlk] Spanish with JAWS

I am taking a Spanish class in college.  I have JAWS 15 and MS Word 2010.  I know you can change the language and/or have it detect a language in MS Word and I know you can change the language in JAWS.  
I get my textbook chapters in Word format from the disability office at my school.  
The chapters have a lot of English interspersed within the Spanish text. 
I really need help figuring out how to deal with that.  I have tried changing both JAWS and MS Word settings to Spanish.  I have also tried just changing it in one program or the other. I have also tried not having the language changed at all in any program.  It seems that no matter what I do, JAWS inevitably reads things wrong. It will sometimes read Spanish in an English pronunciation or read English in a Spanish pronunciation.  When it does that, I cannot understand what it's saying at all.  Sometimes it does read it in the right language.  But I cannot figure out how it is deciding which language to read it in.
So basically I need help figuring out how to read a document that is two different languages.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Anna E Givens
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