[bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!

  • From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:13:13 -0700

I'll go up to the classroom. That ok?

On 7/27/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Roger,
>
> When Jaws was speaking Page break, I was listening to the book by arrowing
> down one line at a time. I don't use continuous play because I think I
> concentrate and notice more detail one line at a time. The act of arrowing
> down line by line seems to aid my concentration on the task. Reading line by
> line helps me hear when funky formatting is going on as when margins are all
> over the map or fonts go huge, because those problems present as much
> shorter or longer sounding lines. Really, I'm not sure that matters as long
> as the paragraph breaks are in the right places.
>
> I'm sorry I can't contribute anything to help you hear page breaks when JAWS
> is continuously reading.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:43 PM
>   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jaws, tight lipped about page breaks!
>
>
>   As a matter of fact, I am having a similar problem. I have just started
> validating a book in which I at first thought that there were no page
> breaks. However, when I down arrow one line at a time JAWS reads the page
> breaks when I come to them. It just doesn't do so when it is continuously
> reading. To make matters worse, none of the pages are numbered. I have just
> inserted the first ten page numbers, but this is too tedious while reading
> the text too. If no other solution is found I think that I will just go
> ahead and finish the book on continuous read and then go back and down arrow
> from one page break to another inserting page numbers. By the way, I am
> using JAWS 9.0. In a message dated 7/27/2008 8:26:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight
> Time, poetprodigy7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>     -------------- Original message from "Estelnalissi"
> <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
>
>
>     > Dear Booksharian Friends,
>     >
>     > Recently I upgraded to JAWS nine point zero something something
> something,
>     > the upgrade after plain JAWS nine point oh. Now it no longer announces
> page
>     > breaks. Where it used to say Page Break, it now says blank.
>     >
>     > Seeing if the page breaks are there is tedious, slow and dizzy making
> for
>     > me, at the very least. This is slowing me down. Has anyone had the
> same
>     > problem?
>     >
>     > If nobody has ideas about this, I can reinstall JAWS nine point oh and
> hope
>     > that solves the problem. I'll also call JAWS tech help. I don't have
> much
>     > confidence in it because when I called for the first time in two
> years, they
>     > wanted to blame it all on Norton without delving in my problem at all,
> and
>     > this after my latest Norton upgrade had worked fine for 4 months
> without
>     > disturbing JAWS. I think computer maintenance is as ongoing and
> expensive
>     > and frustrating as car maintenance must be for people who own them. I
> like
>     > appliances that work for years without acting twisted, things like
> fans,
>     > refrigerators, radios and washing machines!
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance,
>     >
>     > Lissi
>     >
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