[nfbcs] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Fri May 21 01:23:38 UTC 2010


The website changed and put in an indication of language or what JAWS thinks 
is a language indication.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim" <jp100 at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook


> Thanks for the suggestions.
> I appreciate that.
> But, here's something that hasn't been explored yet.
> Why did this begin happening?  It was working fine till Friday.
> Who have I stumped now??
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook
>
> Disable language detection for that site.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim" <jp100 at earthlink.net>
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> 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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