[stylist] Editing with JAWS

Tue Nov 9 00:36:26 UTC 2010

Alan, Thanks.  I appreciate your help.  Judith
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>I actually know what Judith is talking about. Let me do some looking either 
>later tonight or tomorrow, and I'll let the list know.
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>> 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
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>>
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>> 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
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" 
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>>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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>>>Subject: [stylist] Editing with JAWS
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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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