[nfbcs] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook

Gary Wunder gwunder at earthlink.net
Wed May 19 20:48:30 UTC 2010


You can tell JAWS not to detect changes in languages in this way:

The language detection option within the Adjust JAWS Options dialog is on by 
default. To disable this option, Press INSERT+V, move to Language Detect 
Change, and press SPACEBAR.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim" <jp100 at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: [nfbcs] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook


> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I feel like I always have the strangest or weirdest questions regarding 
> JAWS
> and my computer, but here goes.
>
>
>
> I'm on facebook and have had no real problems with it when I use either 
> the
> mobile or the normal site on my laptop computer.  I have JFW Version 10, 
> and
> everything was working fine until late last week.  I figured this would be
> temporary, so I left it alone for a few days, but now it is annoying.  And
> no.I did not alter a single setting!
>
>
>
> I go to the mobile site, and everything is fine.
>
> However, when I go to the regular facebook.com site, it loads up OK, but 
> the
> JAWS eloquence voice thinks it is reading Spanish and begins reading in a
> Latin American Spanish accent.  I know Spanish, so that's how I was able 
> to
> figure this out.
>
>
>
> How can I fix this issue?  It doesn't do that anywhere else.  When I tried
> on my netbook, it went to the facebook site and read it just fine.  No
> problem there.
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jim P
>
>
>
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