[Trainer-talk] Weird interaction between my JAWS and Facebook

[David Goldfield]

Jim,

I haven't used JAWS 10 with Facebook, but here is what comes to mind.

You probably already know this, but JFW does have the ability to detect 
when a Web site has a certain tag or flag set for a specific language 
and can then change to that language voice.  As an example, certain 
UK-based sites are tagged for British English as opposed to U.S. 
English.  This, visually, makes no difference to the sighted user but if 
JAWS is aware of this then it will switch to the British English voice.  
For whatever reason, JAWS is somehow detecting that your Facebook.com 
site is set for some other language and I'm not sure why this is 
happening.  I would just go into the Configuration Manager and disable 
the detect languages checkbox as well as the detection of dialects.  It 
might be located in the text processing or HTML options; I can't 
remember and I don't have JAWS in front of me to check.  You could also 
use the insert-shift-V setting to disable this while you're on Facebook, 
which would disable this feature just on the current page.

Good luck.

David Goldfield



On 5/19/2010 1:52 PM, Jim wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I feel like I always have the strangest or weirdest questions regarding JAWS
> and my computer, but here goes.
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> I'm on facebook and have had no real problems with it when I use either the
> mobile or the normal site on my laptop computer.  I have JFW Version 10, and
> everything was working fine until late last week.  I figured this would be
> temporary, so I left it alone for a few days, but now it is annoying.  And
> no.I did not alter a single setting!
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> I go to the mobile site, and everything is fine.
>
> However, when I go to the regular facebook.com site, it loads up OK, but the
> JAWS eloquence voice thinks it is reading Spanish and begins reading in a
> Latin American Spanish accent.  I know Spanish, so that's how I was able to
> figure this out.
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> How can I fix this issue?  It doesn't do that anywhere else.  When I tried
> on my netbook, it went to the facebook site and read it just fine.  No
> problem there.
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> Thoughts?
>
> Jim P
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