[vicsireland] Re: Irish and Jaws
- From: RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:37:39 +0100
That's it Tim.
I'm using a voice from Kurzweil. I may have to sacrifice this great voice.
Regards,
Robbie
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, RobbieS <robbiesin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Do you mean that if you insert an a acute and then arrow across the
>> letter that Jaws just says a?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 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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>> ** **
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>> I’m using eloquence with british English, so perhaps it is a synthesiser
>> issue?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Tim****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *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****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks Tim, that's good to know. ****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> 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?****
>>
>> Thanks for the Ins+3 suggestion, Eamonn, but it didn't work for this
>> purpose: I don't know what its for.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Regards,****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Robbie****
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Eamonn X. O'Connor <EXOConnor@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> Hi Robbie and Tim,
>>
>> How about the Jaws "pass through" key: INS +3?
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Eamonn
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>> [vicsireland] Re: Irish and Jaws
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>>
>> Tim Culhane
>> to:
>> vicsireland
>> 15/08/2012
>> 08:30
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So, for example, you want o acute, just hit insert + 4 and then the
>> letter o and hit enter.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robbie
>>
>>
>>
>> ****
>>
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