[nabs-l] Glitch with Jaws reading by character or word on Spanish textbook web site

Munawar Bijani munawarb at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 20:44:07 UTC 2016


Sorry, set the "Say Special Symbols When" option to "Never," not "Also
Say Word" as I previously suggested.

On 4/5/16, Jason Polansky via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Ok, I pressed num pad 5 twice quickly, and it said I accute instead of
> character 237. However, I want it to say I acute all the time. In other
> words, I don't want it to say s character 237 every time I navigate by word.
> I want it to just say sí as if it were saying the word.
>
>> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Munawar Bijani via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> What you're hearing is the character value instead of the user-friendly
>> label. If you press the SayCharacter command, which is NUMPAD5 on a
>> desktop and JAWSKEY+COMMA on a laptop, you will hear the user-friendly
>> label again. If you press the SayCharacter command three times quickly you
>> will hear the value of the character. The hook will stay as long as you
>> arrow left or right.
>>
>>> On 4/4/2016 10:12 PM, Jason Polansky via nabs-l wrote:
>>> Hello all.
>>> When I navigate by character or word with Jaws on my Spanish textbook web
>>> site, it does not read accent marks as as "a accute" or "n tilde."
>>> Instead, it says "character 2 4 1" or "character 2 3 6." I find this
>>> annoying, and I was wondering if any of you would know how to fix this in
>>> Jaws settings. It only does this when I navigate by character or word,
>>> and not when I read bY line or paragraph. Previously, it would say "a
>>> acute" when I navigated by character and say the word normally when I
>>> navigated by word. Recently, I was exploring the Jaws settings center,
>>> and my guess is that I accidentally changed something that made it behave
>>> this way, but I don't remember what it was. Would any of you know how to
>>> fix this?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jason
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