RE: Jaws not speaking normal characters, suddenly
- From: "Griffiths, Steve" <Steve.Griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:49:59 +0100
The first bit of your posting sounds like the AutoCorrect option for
borders has been switched on within Word, although when you say that
none of the shifted numbers produce anything, that doesn't fit this
scenario. I'll run through it anyway, because it may be of use to
others.
The AutoCorrect borders feature allows you to create borders around a
paragraph by typing three characters on their own as a paragraph. I've
only been able to use asterisks, hyphens, underscores and equal signs to
create borders in this way. The way it works is if you press Enter to
move to a new paragraph, then type three asterisks with no spaces
between them and then press Enter again, the three asterisks are
replaced with a border.
To see if the AutoCorrect option is on, go to the Tools menu and choose
AutoCorrect. Press Control + Tab to move to the second page. How you
navigate the page depends on your version of Word; on Word 97 and 2000
you can tab around until you get to a checkbox with the word "borders"
in the label, while in Word 2003 you DownArrow until you get to the
checkbox. I don't have Word 2002 so I can't say what happens there. If
the item is checked, the feature is active.
If you want to check whether a paragraph has borders, the JAWS keystroke
Alt + Shift + B will tell you. Beware, though that the borders feature
outlined above is peculiar in exactly how it applies the borders. I
won't go into more detail unless there is an interest.
Steve
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Sent: Friday, 29 July 2005 22:34
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Subject: Jaws not speaking normal characters, suddenly
I'm working in a Word document and decided to mark the division between
sections of the piece I'm writing by typing three asterisks (stars)at
certain points. I've used this character for similar purposes often,.
But this time, even though if I set Jaws to echo my typing by character,
I hear the stars being typed, I can't find them afterward. Jaws is
silent, as if I'd typed nothing on that line.
I tried another couple of such characters, just out of curiosity. Like
the dollar sign and the number sign. Same thing happened. Now, on all
these
keys-- 3, 4, etc.-- the numbers appear for Jaws after I type them. But
not the characters produced by pressing the shift key with them.
I'm using Jaws 6.0. Could this be some sort of glitch in this version?
Or could I have inadvertently set something in an area of Configuration
Manager that would silence these characters, without knowing it, so I
don't know what to look for and reset?
Thanks to anyone who recognizes this problem and can point me toward a
solution. It's really inconvenient not to be able to type these
ordinary characters and hear them with Jaws. I'm sure they're visible,
so that isn't what I'm wondering. I want to know why Jaws is ignoring
them, once they've been typed.
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