Hi, what we really need is an option somewhere in configuration manager, perhaps in HTML options, to turn off those annoying "link ... end link" announcements. I'm astonished actually that FS put a feature in that we folks cannot customize. The option could also be made temporary in the adjust JAWS verbosity dialogue box. I've got another annoyance actually about JAWS 9. In previous versions, one could make a verbosity change in Outlook Express/Windows Mail and the setting would be applied permanently. In JAWS 9, however, this doesn't seem to be the case, as every time I start it I have to change the verbosity each time. Now that's annoying isn't it? By the way I'm using a demo copy of JAWS 9, but that shouldn't have anything to do with the annoyances we're talking about. Sorry for the ranting, but there you go.
Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower User Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:22 PM Subject: Re: Link/End Link Announcement in OE Editor
Dana, I have the same complaint, and no solution. But I confess that when I read your first post on Blind Tech, I wasn't sure what it was you'd found sonovel, as well as displeasing. Because I thought you were talking only aboutactual links within emails or, also, within something like a Word document where Jaws recognizes that a text string is a URL or an email address. All I'd noticed is that the voice seemed annoying and obnoxious compared to whatever it had sounded like before, plus that it announced the end of thelink as well as its mere existence. Which struck me as useless information.So I went into the Jaws Window Options/voices/Individual voices menu and toned down Glenn's shrill announcement a little bit.but I've just copied a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed and pasted it into an OutlookExpress email message to send to a friend, and in navigating around it inthe course of pushing it down a bit so I could type a personal message aboveit, I noticed to my bafflement that when my arrowing focused on just ordinary elements that used to speak just as text, like the name of the paper at the top of the article before the URL for the article page is given, that was given the link/end link treatment, too, and those linesaren't even links, so far as I'm aware. So this new "service" is worse than annoying, it's also buggy. I think it's another issue to add to the list ofglitches I'm making in order to send FS a coherent report after a few more days of using Jaws 9, which others are happily reporting no problems with, but which is doing all kinds of strange stuff on my computer that I don't even want to go into, now. It's nothing anyone on a list can help me rectify. It's glitches and bugs and malfunctions. Ack.----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana S. Leslie" <dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Link/End Link Announcement in OE Editor I asked the same question on BlindTech, yesterday. But I haven't gotten an answer, so I'm asking here.----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Link/End Link Announcement in OE EditorHi, have I not seen this thread before? Anyway, I'd like to know this as well please? It happens with Windows Mail too. Thanks in advance. Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower User Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana S. Leslie" <dsleslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: "JFWList" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:57 PM Subject: Link/End Link Announcement in OE EditorIn JAWS 9.0, every time I focus on an active link in the OE message editor, JAWS announces "link," in a high pitched voice; and, when I move away from the link, it announces "end link," in the same high pitch. It does this ONLY in the message editor, NOT in the message reading window. This seems to be new in 9.0. Can anyone please tell me how to disable this announcement altogether, and not just the pitch change? Thank you. Blessed Be, Dana that's Dana, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N AIf your synthesizer pronounces them identically, instruct your customizedpronunciation dictionary that Dana=dayna. D. S. Leslie, née C. R. 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