[stylist] Editing with JAWS

[Brad Dunse]

Judith,

I think what you might be referring to is a feature in Word that 
corrects spelling and alerts you right  away. Check out your 
tools/options  menu, then your Spelling and Grammar tab. There are 
tick boxes for checking as you go, making suggestions and etc. As far 
as I  know, there has never been an actual spell checking tool in 
Jaws, it is likely reading a part of the screen. The newer Jaws has a 
thing called Text Analyzer which will alert you of multiple spaces, 
open ended quotes, open parenthesis and other issues. But it didn't 
seem to catch  my test goofs.

I'd be interested in getting what you described though, but I can't 
get it to work on here.

Brad


Brad




On 11/8/2010  01:35 PM Judith Bron said...
>Bridget, Before my hard drive was replaced Jaws told me when on a 
>line that I had whatever number of spelling/grammer errors on that 
>line.  I can' remember how to get that back.  Also, this told me 
>that a word was misspelled right after I spelled it.  I already have 
>jaws set to announce all punctuation.  Judith
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>>Hey guys,
>>
>>First, if you can use Braille and have access to either a refreshable
>>Braille device or Braille embosser, you can check all the same spelling,
>>grammar and structure issues as sighted people.  Just a quick plug for
>>Braille.  *smile*
>>
>>If you solely use JAWS to edit, though, it is not always as difficult as
>>you might think.  It is an adjustment, but it can be done.  One big
>>helpful feature of JAWS is that you can turn on a feature that will read
>>all punctuation including commas and apostrophies.  Go to the JAWS
>>window and pull up the option menu, then go to basics, then tab until
>>you hear punctuation and select "all punctuation ."  The short cut is to
>>press insert and V which will bring up the verbocity dialogue box, then
>>it will list different options, press P until you hear punctuation,
>>press space bar to change the punctuation mode.  Do this until you hear
>>"all."
>>
>>By the way, we will have a guest speaker for a monthly meeting (probably
>>after the New Year) who will talk about how to use JAWS for editing
>>purposes.
>>
>>Anyway, hope this helps.
>>
>>Bridgit
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