Re: Punctuation and JAWS
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:53:23 -0800
Adrian,
this is just my personal preference, but I keep Jaws set to speak most
punctuation, from among the choices offered in the basics menu. which means
that I don't hear things like commas spoken, but do hear single and double
quotation marks spoken so that I am apprised that it's a quotation or a
quotation within a quotation that I'm hearing. This is essential to me in a
way it might not be for another user, I understand. As for colons and
semicolons, I don't have jaws set to speak them, and I, too, regret that
they don't produce a significant pause. I think the only way to really be
sure what was happening, aside from reading word by word, would be to go
into the Configuration Manager verbosity section and get those and other
punctuation marks to speak, though I'd hate to do it. If you're writing
something yourself, rather than reading what's already been written by
someone else, leaving two spaces after a colon (and even after a period) in
the way that seems to have gone out of fashion (a semicolon has always
required only one space following)helps to slow Jaws down appropriately, to
indicate the rhythmic nuance. But in my experience, anyway, it isn't
possible to simply have text spoken in the cadence that accurately reflects
all such punctuation, I'm afraid. What I describe are just some tricks I've
had to learn to bear with because of this.
sometone ,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: Punctuation and JAWS
I find it helps my reading comprehension when JAWS pauses at commas and
other punctuation. However, it doesn't pause after colons or semicolons.
Also, JAWS reads text well between double quotation marks, but not when the
text is between single quotations. Does anyone have any suggestions how I
can make appropriate adjustments?
Or, as I suspect, are these limitations inherent in JAWS? In that case, do
they interfere with other people's ability to comprehend what they read with
JAWS?
I've written several times to the FS suggestions email address, but without
getting any response.
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