Hello all, At work I use Jaws 10. I've noticed several problems using Word 2003, and am wondering if others have experienced these things. Yes, I've reported them to FS.
I do a lot of work with styles in Word. I often use the BANA braille template that DBT installs into Word for braille production. This involves doing a lot of work with paragraph and character styles. The default for Jaws is to announce styles first when arrowing down through text. However, I've found that for no reason, Jaws will sometimes start announcing the style names after reading the line of text. This means that I can't move through a document quickly because I have to listen to everything on a line before hearing the style name, when in fact I only want to verify style formatting. Sometimes relaunching Jaws helps. Sometimes reloading the file helps but not always. Sometimes I've rebooted the PC with no change. I have no idea what triggers this behaviour or what triggers it to go back to the correct order of reading. FS has no idea either. It does this even when default settings are loaded. It's not any changes that I'm doing. This behaviour also happens with documents created with the normal.dot template which is what is normally used for documents. The second thing I've noticed concerns paragraph marks. I have those turned on so that I know there is a paragraph change and that text hasn't simply just wrapped to a new line. When selecting over a paragraph mark, Jaws remains silent. That's difficult, but not too serious. But if I'm doing a lot of document switching or cut and paste or general up and down movement in a document, the announcement of the paragraph marks disappears. Again, it will return after a while, but I find this behaviour unpredictable. I also find it very distracting to have Jaws announce the new line even when arrowing down through text. I know it's a new line because I'm pressing the down arrow key. LOL. This is with all of the choices of how to report line endings turned off in the Text Processing tab or wherever it is. The only solution I've found is to go into the Speech and Sounds manager, on the Miscellaneous tab I think and change the announcement to a sound, then choose a very subtle sound that I can tune out. I haven't been able to turn this feature totally off. The last problem I'm noticing is that Jaws does not announce anything when selecting paragraphs. Shift-control down arrow to select a paragraph remains silent. Quite difficult when you want to select contiguous paragraphs. Jean Approximatura: A series of notes played by a performer, not intended by the composer. E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11680 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to jaws-users-list-le...@jaws-users.com For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: jaws-users-list-requ...@jaws-users.com Use the following address in order to contact the management team jaws-users-list-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: blind-computing-j...@jaws-users.com
