[bksvol-discuss] Re: single quotes and apostraphes
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:43:14 -0500
Cindy,
I'm not sure why, but Jaws seems to recognize both sentences as apostrophes.
I don't know about any other screen readers or braille output devices but
that's how Jaws is picking it up.
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: single quotes and apostraphes
> Thanks for the feedback, Lisa and Shannon.
>
> With the sentences I originally sent, Shannon's reader
> read them properly but Lisa's Jaws read everything as
> apostrophes.
>
> Here are the sentences two different ways. "I'm" and
> "grandfather's" should read as apostrophes. There
> should be a single quote before"Vivian" and after
> "outside." #1 uses the regular key on my keyboard,
> the one udner the double-quote mark. Number 2 uses
> that for the apostrophe and the combination of
> keystrokes for the single quote.
>
> Please let me know which is better for you. If the
> latter is better for most of you, I'll start using
> that.
>
> Cindy
>
> (1) This is " . . . So I'm not terribly concerned
> for you. My grandfather's got real senility, okay?
> Last week he said to me, 'Vivian put the popcorn
> outside.' . . .
>
>
> (2) " . . . So I'm not terribly concerned for you. My
> grandfather's got real senility, okay? Last week he
> said to me, 'Vivian put the popcorn outside.' . . .
>
>
>
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