[Nfbmo] JAWS question

[Julie McGinnity]

Hi Dan,

It could be a font issue...  And it could also be that Jaws is told by
Word what language it should read in.  So, if you opened a document,
in which the language was set to French, Jaws would read the entire
thing in French.  Sometimes Jaws gets confused because of a glitch in
Word.  You can try selecting the text, going to the review tab, and
selecting the set language option.  From there you can tell it to
speak English.

I hope this helps.

On 1/26/17, Holly Carneal via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> I am not sure how to correct this issue, but I have run across the same
> problem. I have asked sighted people to look at the documents this happens
> with and they have reported that there is no use of foreign language within
> these documents. The only thing I can come up with is that JAWS may be
> trying to read some strange looking font and it is somehow seeing it as a
> different language.
>
>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Dan Flasar via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>      Every once in a while, while on a webpage or  sometimes even in a
>> text document,JAWS suddenly switches from interpreting the  text in
>> English to
>> another language, usually German or French.  Although I  am a little
>> conversant in those languages, it's really unsettling.  It  seems to
>> happen when I
>> come across a link in the text or the page.
>>    Anybody have any ideas on how this happens?   Sometimes the change is
>> consistent for the entire page or document and sometimes  only for a few
>> paragraphs or so.
>>      Far as I can tell, there are no foreign  words with specific
>> diacritical mark causing the change.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Dan Flasar
>>
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Julie A. McGinnity
President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division,
Second Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
"For we walk by faith, not by sight"
2 Cor. 7