[nabs-l] email, highlighting, and languages

[Sami Osborne]

Hey Ryan,

Please forgive me for being totally off-topic for a moment, but 
what language is your email signature in? I'm asking because I 
just noticed that it was in a different set of characters than 
our alphabet, and you're a native English speaker as far as I 
know.  So this is really strange that you would write your 
signature in a completely different language.  Oh, and I'm also 
asking because I'm a language freak.

Ok, off-topic over.

Ana (and others), I can answer you for the Spanish thing.  I 
don't have a BrailleSense, but I do use both JAWS and VO.  To 
change the JAWS language to Spanish, go to the JAWS window, press 
the Altogether key to go to the menu bar, then press the down 
arrow twice until you here "Voices." Press enter on that option, 
then press tab 3 times until you get to "Synthesiser language." 
Press enter, then the down arrow until you get to the Spanish 
option.  (Note: JAWS  will say it with a Spanish accent, but you 
should be able to understand).
Now to do it using Voiceover, go to Settings, General, Language 
and region, Espanol (which means Spanish in Spanish).

And yes, I do agree with others that you have to learn the 
accented letters in Braille.  I don't think that should be much 
of a problem.  I also know how to write those accents, and I 
don'! want to clutter the list seeing as the first part of my 
message is probably off-topic, so if you'd like I can tell you 
how to write the accents off-list.

Hope I've been a good help.

Happy Friday, and happy new year!

Sami.


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Silveira via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Anna Givens <annajee82 at gmail.com>,National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:51:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] email, highlighting, and languages

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
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 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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