You might want to set jaws to expand abbreviations for your browser. That can be found in the INS+V dialog, along with acronyms. You could also mess with dictionary entries if you don't like how it deals with the abbreviation set. On 4/6/10, alice dampman Humel <alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, all, > Thanks for the insert down arrow answer to my question about getting > JAWS to read sentences. > There's one problem that actually had me laughing as I tried to read an > article using my newly acquired knowledge of this command. Every time JAWS > hits a period, no matter where it is, it assumes it's the end of a sentence. > So every time I encountered Mr. so and so, JAWS stopped after Mr. There were > many appearances of Mr. in this article, and, well, you can imagine what it > was like trying to read sentences. I finally gave up and went back to the > usual down arrow for lines for this particular article. > Is there some kind of work-around for this? > Thanks. > Alice > alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx -- 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 Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html 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