Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
- From: "Cher Bosch" <Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:18:12 -0600
I think a lot of us have that same intermittent problem with OE.
However, this keystroke works even when the spell-check is not doing
much else correctly.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 10:06 AM >>>
Oh. Well, as long as I've been a jaws user, I never knew you could get
Jaws to clear up the spell check screen or get it to review itself that
way. By the way, my problem, when it happens (and it doesn't happen
every session) isn't just that I can't get the misspelled word in its
context. It starts even before, with Jaws being unwilling to even say
"word not found" and spell out the mistake. See? It's that basic.
When it's malfunctioning, all I hear when the spell check finds a word
it doesn't like, immediately, is the first correction offered. No "word
not found," plus the spelling of it.
Sorry I didn't describe the problem clearly enough. But in any case,
I'll keep this key combo in mind and try it sometime. Thanks again.
----- Original Message ----- From: Cher Bosch
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
It's just a JAWS keystroke to re-read and spell the misspelled word and
the suggested correction. It won't read the word in context, but is
helpful when you can't quite catch or have forgotten what JAWS said.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/08/06 8:42 AM >>>
Insert F7? Same key command we use for getting a list of active links
on a Web page? Interesting. You think that when you press this key
combo when in spell check on an email message, it somehow refreshes or
clarifies Jaws's view of the spell check dialogue? Sort of? I'll try
it as soon as I have an opportunity. Whatever made you think of this?
Did you find it recommended somewhere in some instructions, for
instance? Or did you just happen to press it by accident and find that
it cleaned up the spell check dialogue for Jaws? Or...?
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: Cher Bosch
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Have you used the Insert-F7 to at least get JAWS to re-read and
re-spell the original word and the suggested replacement? This helps me
get by when OE isn't providing enough info.
Cher
>>> "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/07/06 6:20 PM >>>
I'd just like to testify that, although I've had Jaws versions that
didn't handle the Spell Check dialogue and functions very well in OE,
for the past couple of versions it's been perfectly fine. This is just
some kind of recent glitch or corruption of some esoteric file deep in
some program or something. I guess I'd need an I T professional to make
an educated guess. We do not so badly on this list despite precious few
of us being real gearheads, let alone pros, but this is one of those
things it probably won't do much good just to speculate about.
Oh, well.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Funny, the word in context has never worked for me in Outlook Express
and neither does the spell checker drop me at the offending word when I
drop out of the spell checker as it does in Word or MS-Outlook. This
through all versions of jaws from 2.2 through 7. I don't yet have
version 8.
So, is there something I need to do to make this work like it does in
Word and Outlook?
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
DLeavens@xxxxxxx
Skype DaleLeavens
Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat.
----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Spratt
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: OE spell check and Jaws problem
Hi, Yardbird.
It sounds improbable, but have you not rebooted your PC during this
time? I find that spell-checker gets exhausted after prolonged use and
stops working properly, if at all. A reboot usually fixes the problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
For only what seems like a few weeks, spell check while I'm composing
email in OE composing email seems to have suffered a bit of a breakdown.
For some typos and misspellings, it still lets me "see" the suspect word
in context when I press the Jaws/Insert key plus C. But a good deal of
the time, now, to my considerable distress, if I can't recall from the
sound of the mistake what I meant to say and choose well from the list
of options for replacement, and press Insert C, all I hear is "Word not
found."
This isn't much help, of course, so I give the command to Ignore the
mistake and go on. After closing the spell checker when it's done as
well as it was able under the circumstances, I close it and review the
entire message, seeking out the remaining mistakes manually and
correcting them myself. This isn't nearly as much fun as having a fully
functional spell checker working for me. to put it nicely.
Any ideas? This is Jaws 7.0 and OE 6, and I haven't changed anything in
either of those two applications for ages. Maybe even forever.
Thanks..
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