Re: Pronunciation of subsection in Word

Derek,

I have one thought, especially considering the importance you place on your 
headings. The way JAWS reads text, it typically merges a heading with the 
following sentence, which can cause me to overlook that a line is functioning 
as a heading. It might help to place a period after each heading so that JAWS 
pauses and doesn't create a run-on sentence out of it.

I'm glad you're giving this question so much thought. One lister suggests that 
we get used to listening to imperfectly rendered documents. However, I think we 
sometimes do so at the cost of missing information and signals embedded in the 
text. After all, there's a reason why print and braille highlight headings and 
italicize text. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Derek Binkley 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:11 AM


  Hi,
      I am planning on distributing a Word document to some of our customers 
some of whom will be using Jaws to read the document.  I am new to Jaws and am 
not sure how to deal with pronunciation of certain punctuation.  This document 
is organized into sections which are crucial to the meaning of the document.  
Once example is a section I which has subsections (a) and (b).  When Jaws reads 
these subsections it pronounces them as follows, "left paren ah right paren."  
Can I leave this text as it is or would it be better to change it somehow so 
that it is pronounced more clearly?

  Thanks for you help.

  Regards,
  Derek Binkley

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