Hello Victoria; I miss spoke, regarding your question.
the steps I sent in, will only stop jaws from announcing the period, when you press the key. if you don't want jaws to read the symbol, then? turn off the punctuation. which program are you reading the books with? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <davidwhitehead1...@cogeco.ca> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hi Victoria; you can follow these steps to accomplish turning off jaws announcing the period. Hello there; 1, insert+f2, c=configuration manager press enter. 2, now, press, ctrl+shift+d=default manager. 3, now press alt+s=options, 4, now press the letter K=keyboard options. 5, shift+tab one time you should hear, general, right arrow one time, you should hear key-labels. 6, now tab one time, your in a list, press, the letters, S&Y=symbols, you will hear, no labels speak, tab one time, and, press, the spacebar on, toggle mute button, now, tab and press enter, on, okay button, alt+f4, and say yes to changes. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria Vaughan" <vrvaug...@mailzone.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hi, I would like to turn off the announcement of the period off. When I'm reading a book and there is ... an ellipsis, for a long pause, I hate it saying "period period period". Please tell me how you did that! Many thanks! Vicky ----- Original Message ----- From: "douglas dunlap" <frd...@blomand.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:22 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question > Hi Everyone, > > At some point I went into the keyboard manager and turned the announcement > of the period > > Off. I have no idea how to correct this. The period still works when > depressed, but jaws says nothing. > > Can someone help me turn this back on. > > > > Doug > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
