[bookshare-discuss] Re: Proofreading with JAWS 10 and MS Word 2002
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:17:33 -0800
Hi Lisa,
I know other people have had this issue. There is a fix. The JAWS
dictionary needs to be modified. I don't know myself, exactly how to do
this. What folks had to do was to find the page break character, press
insert numpad5 until you see the numeric value for that character, then tell
the dictionary to say"page break" when JAWS encounters that character. I
know the more computer competent folks on the list will be able to help you
better. Just wanted to let you know that there was a fix for this, that
folks had dealt with it using JAWS 9, and to give you an idea of what the
fix was.
Good luck! I'm spoiled. I live with a very geeky sweetie who fixes this
stuff for me. Thank goodness, too, because I'm absolutely convinced that
I'd cause havoc if I were to try some of these things myself. Computers do
tend to hate me!
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Belville [mailto:lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:21 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Proofreading with JAWS 10 and MS Word 2002
Hi, Bob.
Oh, I know. <smiles> I've got three versions of JAWS on here and am
accustomed to switching between them as needed. However, JAWS 10 seems to
be less buggy than the past few releases, and so far, it works well for me
with everything accept this Word issue.
Lisa
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
Lisa Belville
lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx
missktlab1217@xxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob <mailto:rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Proofreading with JAWS 10 and MS
Word 2002
Hi Lisa.
I don't use jaws10 but use jaws9, so I haven't encountered your
problem.
What you could do is re-install an earlier version of jaws, say
jaws9, and run both versions on your system (that's one of the beauties of
jaws, you can run multiple versions). Then, when you proofread for bookshare
you can use jaws9, and in all other situations you can use jaws10.
Hope this helps.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Belville <mailto:lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Proofreading with JAWS 10 and
MS Word 2002
Hi, all.
First, I just want to say the new site is fantastic. Thanks
to the Bookshare staff and volunteers who took the time to listen to each
other and do a fantastic job of incorporating so many suggestions and
features.
I'm having an issue with JAWS that I hope someone on here
has encountered.
I just updated to JAWS 10, and one of the first issues I
noticed is that JAWS will no longer announce hard page breaks in MS Word
2002.
I've checked my formatting and editing options, and JAWS is
set up to speak page breaks. However, JAWS no longer indicates a soft or
hard page break.
Previous versions of JAWS would announce the page number
when encountering a soft page break and say "page Break" when reading a hard
page break.
This behavior occurs in any file format opened in MS Word.
I've tried adjusting my views and zoom rate, but this hasn't fixed the
issue.
Right now I'm using the print view with 100% zoom.
I've looked through the new proofreading manual, and it says
books need page breaks, but it doesn't indicate whether we need to insert
hard page breaks if they aren't already present. If the hard versus soft
page breaks issue is no longer relavant, then I can proofread as usual.
However, if hard page breaks are still required, or if I can't find a fix
for this issue, then I will need to revert to an older version of JAWS so I
can continue volunteering for Bookshare. I don't mind doing this, but it
would be nice to not have to load and unload various versions of JAWS as
version 10 works well for me in all other instances.
I contacted Freedom Scientific technical support and they
can't reproduce the issue. However, I'm thinking they're not aware of the
differences between a soft and hard page break, so they wouldn't necessarily
notice the difference.
I apologize if this is rehashing old issues. I've been off
of the main Bookshare lists for a few months.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you can
provide.
Lisa
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
Lisa Belville
lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx
missktlab1217@xxxxxxxxxx
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