[vicsireland] Re: Irish and Jaws
- From: RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:11:54 +0100
Hi Tim,
Yep, that's what's happening on my Jaws. I'm sure the fadas are there from
any amount of old documents, dictionaries etc. but Jaws just doesn't say
them. Voiceover reas "a acute" etc. from the same sources.
Robbie
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Tim Culhane
<tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi Robbie,****
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> Do you mean that if you insert an a acute and then arrow across the
> letter that Jaws just says a?****
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> It says a acute for me. I’ve just added an a acute below in this message:
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> á****
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> I’m using eloquence with british English, so perhaps it is a synthesiser
> issue?****
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> Tim****
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> *From:* vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *RobbieS
> *Sent:* 15 August 2012 10:52
> *To:* vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [vicsireland] Re: Irish and Jaws****
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> Thanks Tim, that's good to know. ****
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> Supplimenatry question: currently, when Jaws is reading out the letters,
> it doesn't distinguish between an a and an á etc. it just terats all
> vowels as straight vowels. Is there any way to get Jaws to pronounce or
> declare the fadas, anyone?****
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> Thanks for the Ins+3 suggestion, Eamonn, but it didn't work for this
> purpose: I don't know what its for.****
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> Regards,****
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> Robbie****
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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Eamonn X. O'Connor <EXOConnor@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
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> Hi Robbie and Tim,
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> How about the Jaws "pass through" key: INS +3?
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> This ensures that if the next keypress is a Jaws command, that command
> will be ignored. At least that's my understanding, though I don't think
> I've ever used it!
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> Regards,
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> Eamonn
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> [vicsireland] Re: Irish and Jaws
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> Tim Culhane
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> Hi,
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> When you hit jaws key + 4 to bring up the symbols dialogue, hit the letter
> of the accented character you want and It should jump to that letter. This
> saves you arrowing down through the whole list.
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> So, for example, you want o acute, just hit insert + 4 and then the
> letter o and hit enter.
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> Tim
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> From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RobbieS
> Sent: 15 August 2012 06:37
> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vicsireland] Irish and Jaws
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> Hi,
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> I use Jaws 11. It is practically impossible to write Irish in it, so when
> I need to write irish, I must turn Jaws off and hope for the best, and then
> turn it back on when I'm finished.
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> Cearbhall pointed out that Ins+4 gives a list of symbols which can be
> inserted or added to a text. I have tried this, but it takes so long to
> find the proper sínte fada symbol, that writing Irish is far too awkward in
> this way.
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> The normal way on a keyboard, using Windows with language settings at
> Englad (Ireland), is Right-Alt+A for á, etc; this method allows a person to
> write in Irish at the normal speed, but unfortuneately clashes with Jaws
> commands, so doesn't work in Jaws. For example, your liable to be told
> something like, "object not found" or "there are no headers on this page"
> etc. - I can't remember exactly what, because last time I tried, it messed
> up my language settings and I don't want to try it again.
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> Does anyone know of any solution that doesn't involve going in and
> reconfiguring Jaws shortcut key settings?
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> Regards,
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> Robbie
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