All, In the interest of completeness, in order to ensure that your ' is spoken as (apostrophe) everywhere, do this: 1> open system preferences which you will find under the apple menu from anywhere on your mac. 2> open the keyboard button by pressing space or vo space as you prefer. 3> open the text tab in the same way. 4> vo to the right of the substitutions table and check and uncheck checkboxes as appropriate. the single quote is the farthest to the right but it seems all you have to do is uncheck the smart quotes and dashes checkbox. Enjoy! -- Jonnie Appleseed with his hands-on Technolog(eye)s Touching The internet Reducing Technology’s disabilities One Byte at a time ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx