What you describe happens with jaws, provided the author has properly indicated what language the webpage is in with the lang tag. Once.org, for example speaks in spanish, the kind from spain, however, last I checked, radiocentro.mx does't switch your language to spanish, because the author didn't put in this tag. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:36 AM Subject: Re: An observation
Never having encountered a Web page in a language other than English (when I do a Google search, I either opt for English-only results or pass over results not in English), I'd like to know one thing. If you have Spanish installed with Eloquence, and load a Spanish-language Web page, I assume Jaws switches to speaking Spanish, yes? But when you open a Web page in a language you haven't installed with Eloquence, or which, like the Swedish example, doesn't even exists as a possibility with eloquence, what does Jaws do? Does it say "Swedish," for instance, and then speak the words on the page in a meaningless garble? thanks.----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:22 AM Subject: Re: An observation I've worked it out. Basically if the language for a particular synthesizer isn't available, such as Swedish for Eloquence, which doesn't exist anyway, JAWS will announce the language to which the page was written in. However, if you turn language detection off, JAWS will not do this. Thanks for the explanation! On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:12:24 -0700, "Richard Sherman" <squirman@xxxxxxxxxx> said:Hi, You are not imagining or hearing things. I too have the language detection turned off by default. I first checked the site out with language detection turned off and did not hear what you claimed. Then I turned this option back on thru the jaws verbosity and heard that magic word. I am using 7.1 on an xp system with all the updates. Rich----- Original Message ----- From: Kelly PierceSent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:27 AM Last year I found the quirk of JAWS jumping into British English while surfing the web. I eventually disabled the auto language functionality so JAWS would speak in American English all the time. Kelly----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:48 AM Hi all, This is not a bug as you can see from the subject line, but if you go to http://access.getwf.com JAWS announces "swedish". I thought this word was on the web page, but when I navigated it using previous or next character the word wasn't there. Does anyone else have this? I assume it's part of the language features of JAWS and HTML, but wanted to make sure. Thanks! P.S. Using JAWS 8.0.423 demo and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.4 when testing this out. Christopher HallsworthChristopher Hallsworth E-mail: chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype name chrishallsworth7266 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.14/845 - Release Date: 6/12/2007 6:39 AM -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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