Hi Rose, I know JAWS will stop reading the smart tags under the verbosity settings. That's where I went to see about initially dealing with it. On many occasions in class, JAWS will mis-read the word because the tag is there. There's some kind of funny symbol under the word and it seems to throw off the pronunciation of the word. This was happening in both JAWS 5.1 and 6, and it was getting difficult for people to follow. So it got turned off. Thanks for your suggestion, though. I appreciate that. Francis -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx