[NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase

[Dr Denise M Robinson]

Curtis,
Insert alt s to schemes. Then hit P for proofreading attributes and font. And that all caps should read to you.

Sent from Dr Denise M Robinson 

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 7:03 PM, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Greetings:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I just thought folks on this list might find this little conundrum fascinating.😊
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> Cordially,
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> Curtis Chong
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