Re: JAWS spelling

  • From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:09:51 -0000

Do you mean, it is silent whenever you press it, that JAWS does nothing?  (If 
you press it once, it should say the current character.  What about other
keys on this numpad when the numlock is off?  Do they all work as they should 
with JAWS?  (Does numpad5 do anything if you're in insert+1 JAWS Help?) 
Try another numpad.   

We were, I reckon now, barking up the wrong tree altogether with the phonetic 
spelling issue for this problem, interesting in its way though that was. 
(In that regard, however, it might have helped  - and it would help in JAWS if 
FS did this - to define terms if we'd spoken of phonetic pronunciation rather
than phonetic spelling!)   

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Vicki Wherry 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
It doesn't matter how many times I press the key. Nothing happens. I'm using my 
laptop right now with a USB external numpad. I have it set to desktop keyboard
layout, and I've never had this problem before. I'm trying to locate another 
numpad just to make sure it's not my numpad. The number 5 seems to work when
I use it as a numpad for number entries, though.  

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Flor Lynch 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
It seems a repair of JAWS might be the option.  When you hit numpad5 twice 
quickly, is it the same as if you hit it just once?  If you hit it three times,
you should be getting the ANSI character number.  Are you using a standard 
Windows keyboard?  If not, there's further room for querying.   

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Vicki Wherry 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
Judith, actually, I don't think you blundered at all. I just wanted to use the 
term that Freedom Scientific used so that people would know what I was talking
about. So far no one has been able to figure it out. 
Vicki

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Judith Bron 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
I guess that everything has been redefined, sorry for the blunder.  Judith

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Vicki Wherry 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
The term used is spelling Phonetically. Below is the direct command from the 
JAWS help: 
Say Character Phonetically 
NUM PAD 5 twice quickly   

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Judith Bron 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
I don't know what this way is referred to but it is not phonetic.  This is 
using alternate words to spell out a word so that the user knows which letter
is which by means of using unrelated words for each letter.  For example the 
word many:
mary, apple, nancy, yesterday 
I wish I knew what this way of spelling was but I don't.  Judith

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Vicki Wherry 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling
Here is an example. I want JAWS to spell  the word wade phonetically. It would 
spell it whiskey alpha delta echo. And BTW, just spelling the word with insert
numpad 5 doesn't work either. 
Vicki 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Yardbird 
To: 
jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: jaws spelling 
Vicki, 
Are you sure you mean phonetically?  Don't you just mean spelling things out, 
character by character?  Because if you really are talking about having things
spelled phonetically for you, there's a way to set that in the Configuration 
manager, and someone else here can probably direct you where to find that
specific setting. 
but if you just mean the default way that Jaws spells out a word when you press 
Insert 5 as you describe, Insert 5,5, then that isn't phonetic. 
Just to get straight what it is that you're after.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Vicki Wherry 
To: 
JFW List 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: jaws spelling 
I'm using JAWS 7.1, and for some reason, I can't get it to spell 
phonetically in any application. I'm pressing numpad 5 twice quickly like I 
always did, and it won't work in any program. Is there a setting I need to 
change? 

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