[nabs-l] email, highlighting, and languages

[minh ha]

To turn off the spellchecker in firefox, just go to options, choose
advanced and uncheck the "check my spelling as I type" feature then
hit ok. I don't have any suggestions for highlighting nonconsecutive
chunks of texts; I usually just select the lines one piece at a time.
As for Spanish, your notetaker should have an option to turn on
Spanish braille. I recommend doing this so you can get used to the
accented letters. You can also input accented letters on the computer
by doing insert 4 and then choosing the letter that you want. When I
took Spanish in high school and then Italian in college, I mostly did
my assignments in word and added the letters that way.

Minh

On 1/8/15, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's a firefox thing, not your JAWS.  Unfortunately, like Michael I
> don't know how to turn it off, but perhaps someone else or google
> might be able to find something on it.  I found the spelling notices
> helpful for most of the time, but just ignored them when I knew the
> word was actually spelled correctly, E.G notetaker.
>
> For highlighting, why not just select the lines one at a time?  E.G,
> select the first line and highlight it, then move to the next part you
> want highlighted and then do that.  If you already know how to
> highlight a line, that would make sense; you would just skip the line
> you didn't want to highlight and then select the next part of text.
> This is what sighted people do when they highlight as well.
>
> For Spanish you will need to learn the braille symbols for the
> accented letters, as well as how to write them on a computer keyboard.
> I didn't really mess with changing jaws to Spanish when I took the 3
> levels that I took in high school, mainly because I had some
> difficulty understanding jaws then for reasons unknown, but having it
> on English didn't cause problems for me.  The one thing I do wish I
> had learned was how to write the accented letters in print.  I always
> had to note in English within parentheses when I intended for a tilde
> or something to be in a word, and it was really annoying.
>
> On 1/8/15, Michael D Ausbun via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I can answer the first question, Firefox has a built in spellchecker. Now,
>> I'm not sure how to turn it off and on; perhaps someone who uses Firefox
>> will be able to let you know (I mostly use Internet explorer).
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Ryan Silveira via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Anna,
>>>
>>> I am not sure why JAWS is reading “misspelled” before the words that are
>>> spelled incorrectly.  I never had that problem when I used JAWS.  You
>>> might want to check your verbosity settings (insert V).  As for why it
>>> would do it in Firefox and not IE, I have no idea.  I’m not sure you can
>>> select non-consecutive lines using JAWS.  I have never actually come
>>> across any way to do it, but I will check for you.  With your third
>>> question, I can definitely help.  I took Spanish in middle school an high
>>> school and found it very easy.  You can put JAWS in Spanish, as well as
>>> several other languages.  I can look up how to change languages on the
>>> Braille Sence, but I’m sure there is a way to do it.  You will need to
>>> learn the braille symbols used for letters with accent marks.  If you
>>> like, I can e-mail them to you off-list, as well as detailed instructions
>>> on how to put JAWS, your iPhone and your Braille Scense in Spanish.
>>> Sorry
>>> I couldn’t help much with your other questions, but I hope my Spanish
>>> advice helped.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ryan L. Silveira
>>> חָים אהרן בן אברהם
>>>
>>>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Anna Givens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have three separate questions. I need to know how to highlight
>>>> non-consecutive lines of text without using a mouse.  I know how to
>>>> highlight, but when you need to skip lines of text I don't know how.
>>>> I also would like to know why when I am writing an email in my g-mail
>>>> account using firefox JAWS reads it differently then when I do it in
>>>> IE. Instead of just reading through the text I have written, it
>>>> announces "misspelled" everytime it there is a word that is mispelled.
>>>> I happen to find that very annoying, I just want it to read through it
>>>> misspellings and all. But it doesn't do that in IE.  I want to use
>>>> firefox though.  Thoughts??? Suggestions??
>>>> Last question is kind of broad: How do you study Spanish as a blind
>>>> person.  I am coming up on a Spanish class and would greatly
>>>> appreciate any advice I can get. I use JAWS and have a Braille Sense
>>>> as well. I also have an IPhone with VO, and a stream.
>>>> I would love to hear from people who have done this, and how did you do
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks as always,
>>>> Anna E Givens
>>>>
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