I don't know, but I can check tomorrow and report back if no one replies first. Jean
Approximatura: A series of notes played by a performer, not intended by the composer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann byrne" <ann...@sbcglobal.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 10 and Word I am running Word 2000 with JAWS 10. I find that rout JAWS to PC doesn't work. Is this also true with Word 2003??? thanks. At 09:45 PM 2/3/2009, you wrote: >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 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 E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11680 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ 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
