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

Jason Polansky jpolansky.nfb at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 21:11:45 UTC 2016


That did the trick. Thank you!

> On Apr 5, 2016, at 4:44 PM, Munawar Bijani via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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