Re: Jaws doesn't agree about font size
- From: "ferretdamce83" <ferretdance83@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 14:38:52 -0400
According to FS, the font size, as spoken by JAWS, is effected by your screen
size and window size. I find this particularly true in Microsoft Word 2007. I
like the setting at 225%, filling up my entire screen (21.7" widescreen
monitor), so I can, if not see the words, at least see white lines on a black
background, making the creation of outlines easier. I'm never sure with Windows
Mail or IE what the font size "really" is, but, from what I can gather, on my
monitor it is spoken one to two points higher than it truly is. The best way to
know how much JAWS is off on the font size is to do some experimentation.
Create a Word document and set the font size differently on a few separate
lines. Then ask JAWS what the font size is. Do this in Windows Mail as well.
Lori in Ohio
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From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Jaws doesn't agree about font size
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 09:45:57 -0700
That's a very good question. I suspect that the screen size and resolution,
along with a window being in restored or maximized, or some tiny little
gremlins are all the reasons why it's never reported the correct point size in
Notepad.
I do think that the correct point size is reported in MS-Word and MS-Excel,
however - that's been my experience.
I've just learned to ignore what it tells me in Notepad.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Logue
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 09:13
Subject: Jaws doesn't agree about font size
Why does Jaws tell me the font is one size when my application says it's
another. It doesn't matter if it is Wordpad, Jarte or Notepad. I don't know
about Word as I don't have it. If I setthe font to 10 in the app, Jaws says
it's 13 when I check with jawskey+f. If I set to 12, Jaws says 15. Jaws has
done this for a long time, through many versions and on many XP systems.
One exception. Outlook Express: Jaws agrees about the font size. But, Jaws
doesn't agree about the font name in OE. This paragraph is supposed to
beVerdonna OH. Now they agree! Must be a problem in the font selector. I
don't know?
Bob
One exception. Outlook Express: Jaws agrees about the font size. But, Jaws
doesn't agree about the font name in OE. This paragraph is supposed to
beVerdonna OH. Now they agree! Must be a problem in the font selector. I
don't know? I copied that paragraph, and changed the font to arial while it
was selected. It got changed to times new roman. Whats up? And the new
typing is now verdonna!
How's a blind person supposed to produce properly formatted material with
this kind of mess? Maybe I didn't do something right in the OE font dialog.
No, I selected arial again and still get verdonna. And the blank area is now
times new roman.
Screwy Windows!
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