[NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase

[Steve Jacobson]

Curtis,

This is interesting.  I'll bet the all caps checkbox is sort of an attribute that is part of the font definition and probably does not change the character value.  This is a good point to be aware of.  If I am right, there might be a case to be made that the characters should be reported differently rather than simply as uppercase.  I'll have to play with this.

I recently found no way to edit an "IF" field code with JAWS or with narrator but it worked as expected with NVDA.  Clearly there are still multiple ways to get information as you said.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: [NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase

Greetings:

 

I was working with another blind person this week on using a font in MS/Word for which the All Caps checkbox needed to be turned on. I typed “This is a test” in lowercase. Then I selected it. Next, I went into the Font dialog and checked the All Caps Box.

 

Guess what. Both JAWS and Narrator did not indicate that what I was typing was in uppercase. However, NVDA did. I verified my findings by printing the document to PDF and then running Convenient OCR against. The letters were, in fact, uppercase.

 

This is not necessarily a JAWS nor a Narrator bug. But it does reflect some kind of inconsistent technique used to get information out of the document object model.

 

I just thought folks on this list might find this little conundrum fascinating.😊

 

Cordially,

 

Curtis Chong

 

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