[nabs-l] JAWS reading font colour and style...

[Jewel]

Thanks! The JAWS + 6 was just what I was looking for, and the JAWS +
Alt + S is a great key to know, too. Now I'll be able to see the
colour on a colour-coded article; yay!!

~Jewel

On 4/30/12, Allison Hilliker <AllisonH at benetech.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You can also press insert, alt, s. This lets you set a number of font
> reading options.
>
> Allison
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Humberto Avila
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:57 PM
> To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] JAWS reading font colour and style...
>
> Hello Juel
>
> I know how to do this. All you have to do is press insert+6, number 6 on
> the
> number row on your keyboard. Then search for "speech and Sounds Schemes."
> if
> you are using JAWS 12 and later, you will land on an edit box where you can
> just type the search query I specified above, but if you are using JAWS 11
> and earlier, once you invoke the command insert+6, you will get a standard
> app with a menu bar. In this case, you press alt+s to get to the set
> options
> menu, then look for the speech and sounds scheme. Once you are in the
> speech
> and sounds schemes, you need to down arrow, or spacebar (if you are using
> JAWS 12 or 13), till you hear "attributes and colors" or "attributes,
> colors
> and font info". Then press alt+A to apply your change and then press enter
> to confirm the settings.
>
> Hope this helps you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Jewel
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 12:12 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] JAWS reading font colour and style...
>
> Oh, I remember that trick. It's the automatic announcement of change
> that I'm looking for. For example, if I write a little girl, and
> little is bolded, JAWS will say a bold little normal girl. Does that
> make sense? Or if an essay has a chunk in purple and a chunk in red
> (which is only the beginning of what I have), then I want JAWS to say
> blah blah red <this in red< normal <this in normal, boring black>. I
> know it can be done, I just have forgotten how to do it!
>
> On 4/30/12, Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jewel,
>> Pressing Insert plus f should give you all the necessary formatting
>> information. Hope that helps!
>> Katie
>>
>>
>> On 4/30/12, Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> This is just a quick question. II have just forgotten how to do this.
>>> If I want JAWS to read colour style (such as bold or italics) and
>>> colour, what hotkeys do I press? I need this for a final exam...I have
>>> it set up on my laptop but I'm using school computer for the exam, and
>>> I need to be able to recognize the difference betweeen purple and red
>>> and green and such, as well as italics and bold.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jewel
>>>
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