[NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase

Thu Mar 24 17:40:23 UTC 2022

You are welcome and anytime Curtis

  *Denise M Robinson*
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:33 AM Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Dr. Robinson:
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> Thanks for taking the time to help me with this issue. This is very much
> appreciated.
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> Warmly,
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> Curtis Chong
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> *From:* Dr Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 24, 2022 7:38 AM
> *To:* Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>; NFB in Computer Science
> Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase
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> Curtis
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> On that checkbox. The only way the all caps check box works is if you type
> it out first, then select it and THEN check the box
>
> If you want it to cap from the get go:
>
> Just turn on caps lock and type what you want capitalized and it will be
> in all caps. If you type a word already, select it all and shift F3 to
> cycle through options or go to your check box now
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> Hope that helps
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> It can be confusing because logic will tell us that if we check that box
> and start typing it should be in caps. It does not.
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>   *Denise M Robinson*
>
> Denise M Robinson, TVI, AT, IT, PhD, CEO
>
> 425-220-6935
>
> Teaching Technology  and instruction that gives you Vision
>
> www.yourtechvision.com
>
> YouTube Channel with hundreds of lessons for blind skills
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YW7Ves0phCwCOtaZ3wWFw> on the
> computer and more
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YW7Ves0phCwCOtaZ3wWFw>
>
> Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
> Impaired
>
> 425-220-6935 | www.yourtechvision.com
>
> “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
> created them.” --Albert Einstein
>
> [image: TechVision Logo]
>
> “Helping the visually impaired see their world changed through technology”
>
> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
> --Helen Keller
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:58 AM Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Nope. Moving character by character does not yield the caps indication.
> Note every letter  is supposed to be uppercase when that CPs Lock checkbox
> is checked in the font.
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>
>
> Curtis
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> *From:* Dr Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 23, 2022 9:36 AM
> *To:* Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase
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> Hey Curtis
>
> It does tell me each letter is cap and if it says: cap t, cap h, cap i,
> cap s then it will print out as THIS in all caps
>
> Hope that helps--
>
>
>
>   *Denise M Robinson*
>
> Denise M Robinson, TVI, AT, IT, PhD, CEO
>
> 425-220-6935
>
> Teaching Technology  and instruction that gives you Vision
>
> www.yourtechvision.com
>
> YouTube Channel with hundreds of lessons for blind skills
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YW7Ves0phCwCOtaZ3wWFw> on the
> computer and more
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YW7Ves0phCwCOtaZ3wWFw>
>
> Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
> Impaired
>
> 425-220-6935 | www.yourtechvision.com
>
> “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
> created them.” --Albert Einstein
>
> [image: TechVision Logo]
>
> “Helping the visually impaired see their world changed through technology”
>
> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
> --Helen Keller
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:38 AM Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> I am navigating one letter at a time in the test document. While
> capitalization is indicated for the first letter of the sentence, not so
> for the letters which ultimately print out as capitals.
>
> Curtis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 5:43 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Screen Readers Reading Fonts That Are All Uppercase
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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