Re: Reading attributes
- From: "Gezim Rexha" <gezim_rexha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:47:02 +0200
Hello Zhi,
You got it right, and you solved my problem. Many thanks!
Best wishes,
Gezim
From: Zhi Huang
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:57 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
Hello Gezim,
After testing myself, I think I understand and know how to fix your problem.
1. Go to your speech and sounds manager options in your JAWS configuration
manager like you did before.
2. In the select schemes combo box, focus on 1 of the following:
attributes and colors, classic attributes and font info, classic attributes, or
classic attributes font info and color.
3. Navigate to the edit current scheme button with tab and press space to
activate it.
4. Once you open this dialog, there are several tabs here. Navigate to the
attributes tab by either navigating the first tab with tab or shift tab until
you hear the name of the tab which should be general tab and then using the
left and right arrows to navigate between the tabs. Alternatively, you can use
control tab to move forward 1 tab and control shift tab to go back 1 tab
anywhere in this dialog.
5. Once you get to the attributes tab navigate the tab with tab and shift tab
and find a list view.
6. I only have 1 item here, but you might have more. Find default and based on
your problem it probably says default speak text with the name of the voice
that's set for you. If you tab to navigate there, you should find a series of
radio buttons. Use the up and down arrows until you find the speak attribute
radio button. For me, this is the first of 5 radio buttons, but it could be
different for you.
7. Navigate back to the list view with shift tab to make sure you made the
change. if the change is done correctly, it should now say default speak
attribute using message voice.
8. Navigate to the ok button and press space to activate it.
9. You should now be back to the previous dialog which is speech and sounds
manager options and focused on the edit current scheme button. if you now
navigate with tab, the next is a save current scheme button followed by a save
current scheme as button. Use the save current scheme as button to save the
scheme where it gives you the option to give it another name. If you just want
to save these changes without choosing a name yourself, then use the save
current scheme button and it will name the new scheme the name of the scheme
with the word modified at the end.
10. You can always navigate back to the select scheme combo box with tab or
shift tab to make sure your new scheme is the 1 currently in focus.
11. navigate to and activate the ok button and save and exit this dialog.
12. This should take you back to the main part of the configuration manager.
Close this with alt f4 and you should be set now. If you are asked if you want
to save any changes, say yes.
Hope this all helps and makes sense.
Zhi Huang
Co founder of
www.blindness-awareness.info
----- Original Message -----
From: Gezim Rexha
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
Please excuse me if I was not clear enough. The point is that I had
configured JAWS in MS-Word exactly as you explained to me, but unlike in
previous versions when JAWS would announce changing of attributes by saying
"bold", "Normal" and so on, now JAWS uses a particular voice for bold, a
different one for italic, etc. So what I would prefer is if JAWS would just say
the word for the attribute, rather than using different voices.
Have a nice day,
Gezim
From: Dave Carlson
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:51 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
I just told you in my previosu message how to do it.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Gezim Rexha
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 15:43
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
Yes, it is exactly in MS-Word that I need the attributes read, but as I
said in my previous E-mail, JAWS uses different voices for different
attributes, and what I would prefer instead is if JAWS would announce "bold"
etc. Any idea how to make JAWS behave that way?
Gezim
From: Dave Carlson
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:04 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
Are you using MS-Word? If so then Insert+v to open the JAWS options and
turn on the formatting announcements
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Gezim Rexha
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 13:36
Subject: Re: Reading attributes
Hi Alex and all,
That is exactly what I had done, but I would like, lie in previus
versions, JAWS to say for example "bold" or "italic" rather than using a
different voice for bold or italic, because I found those voices unpleasant.
Hoping to hear from you again,
\Gezim
From: Alex Midence
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:30 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Reading attributes
From your application, do the following:
1. Hit Jaws key +f2 and scroll down till you hear Configuration
manager. Hit enter.
2. From the configuration manager once you are in the
application-specific dot jcf file, hit alt+u for the user options menu.
3. Arrow down to Speech and sounds Manager and select it.
4. Hit home to take you to the top of the list. The third, fourth
and fifth options on the list are where you want to be. You can have Jaws read
attributes only, attributes and fonts, or attributes fonts and colors. You can
hit the tab key on each one and you'll go into a read-only field where you can
hear or read a description oof how Jaws handles it.
5. Hit the one you want and close the configuration manager making
sure to save your changes.
You should be in business now.
Hope that helps,
Alex
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gezim Rexha
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:32 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Reading attributes
Hi all,
How can I make JAWS announce attributes, for instance to say "bold" or
"italic" instead of using a different voice for different attributes?
Cheers,
Gezim
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