[stylist] Editing with JAWS

Tue Nov 9 01:44:02 UTC 2010

Judith,
You're welcome. Here's what to do. I had to really look because it's changed 
in JAWS since the last time I played with it.

While in MS Word, press Insert (JAWS Key) and the number 6 (from the number 
row) to open the JAWS configuration file for Word. Press alt-S for the 
settings menu and arrow down to "speech and sound schemes." When you've 
opened this dialogue, select "proofreading attributes and font information" 
and tab to the OK button and hit enter. This will give you information about 
fonts and indentation. You can find settings for the spelling and grammar 
errors in the verbosity settings by pressing Insert-V from within your word 
document. If anyone wants more detailed information on that process, let me 
know.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Editing with JAWS

> Alan, Thanks.  I appreciate your help.  Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan" <awheeler at neb.rr.com>
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Editing with JAWS
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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.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brad Dunse" <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Editing with JAWS
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" 
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>>>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 1:50 PM
>>>>Subject: [stylist] Editing with JAWS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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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