[Nfbmo] JAWS question

Fri Jan 27 13:22:49 UTC 2017

Hello Dan.

In addition to Julie's suggestion, I found an option in the JAWS 
settings that has helped me.

First, I press JAWS key plus the number 6 (not on the numpad) to get to 
the JAWS settings. I think there are other ways to get to these settings 
as well, but this is what I typically do.

Next, I pressed shift tab, which allows me to decide which application I 
want any changes to apply to. Note, if you select default, and make 
changes, the changes you make may not affect all applications. At least 
this appears to be my experience. For instance, even when I selected 
Default (All Applications), and made the changes in the language 
settings that I'm beginning to describe, I still had to subsequently 
make the same changes for Mozilla Thunderbird specifically.

Back to the process I'm describing, I now tab once, which brings me to 
the search box. This is where I landed when I first endered the JAWS 
settings. If you like, you can search for the word language, or as many 
letters of this word as you like. When I enter at least "lan", the first 
result in the next field is "detect languages", which is a checkbox. 
When I tab once to this field and toggle this control to the unchecked 
state, and press okay to finish the process, JAWS no longer switches to 
languages other than English, even if the text is clearly in a different 
language. I tested this process by going to baum.de, which is the German 
webpage for Baum, the assistive technology company that many of us know 
about. When I had the "detect languages" box checked, JAWS switched to 
German for this webpage. When I had the "detect languages" box 
unchecked, JAWS spoke the contents of this webpage in English, even 
though it was really giving English pronunciations of German words. 
Finally, I copied all of the text from the home page on baum.de, and 
pasted it into a Microsoft Word file. The same "detect languages" check 
box had the same effects with this text in this word document as it did 
on the web page, as described above.

If you would like to know the exact location of the "detect languages" 
option in the JAWS settings, I'll describe where I found it.

I went to the JAWS settings. I pressed tab. I pressed down arrow until I 
reached "text processing", and pressed right arrow to enter this 
section. I pressed the down arrow until I reached "general", and pressed 
right arrow to enter this section. I pressed down arrow until I reached 
"detect languages". I made any desired changes, and hit okay.

I hope this helps.

Thank you,

Ben

On 1/27/17 12:39 AM, Julie McGinnity via Nfbmo wrote:
> 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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