hello susie q! regarding jaws saying quotes, do you have more than one version of jaws installed on you're computer? if so, have you tried both versions?
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of susie q Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:07 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Quotes, Stopping Jaws From Reading Them ow do I do that? -----Original Message----- From: Flor Lynch Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:31 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Quotes, Stopping Jaws From Reading Them I think it must be 'hardwired' as an entry in Eloquence's speech dictionary . Try the fix using a different ssynthesizer if you have one. ----- Original Message ----- From: "susie q" <susi...@cogeco.ca> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Quotes, Stopping Jaws From Reading Them > orry Mike the fix did not work, it still reads them, some times it > does not, but some times it does. Well, I will keep trying! Sue > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Mike B. > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:07 PM > To: Jaws-Users List > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Quotes, Stopping Jaws From Reading Them > > Hi Susie Q, > > Follow the steps below but, in the steps below the, apostrophy, is > used as > the example. In your case insert quotes for apostrophy. > > > You can change how Jaws speaks the apostrophy in the Settings Centter > default all applications by doing the following: > > 1. Press Insert + 6, on the number row above the main keyboard to open > the > Settings Center, & press, Control, shift, + D, to open default all > applications. > 2. Arrow down to, Punctuation closed & press right arrow to open. > 3. Arrow down to customize punctuation & press the spacebar to open. > Don't > press enter here, if you press enter instad of the spacebar, the > Settings > Center > will close. > 4.A. When making changes in the customize punctuation list, if you do > not > want > Jaws to speak/recognize a particular punctuation mark you want to > choose the > " all " selection. You will have 4 radio buttons to arrow up or down > through. They are none, some, most, & all. In these selections they > work > backwards than what you would think. For example; If you choose " > none " > for the dollar sign, Jaws will speak / recognize every dollar sign in > whatever you are reading. On the other hand, if you choose the " all > " > radio button, Jaws will not speak / recognize any dollar signs. > > 4.B. After you pressed the spacebar on customize punctuation, you are > now in > a list of punctuation marks. Arrow down the list and when > you have the punctuation mark you want to change highlighted, tab 1 > time to > the radio buttons that I mentioned earlier. > 5. Keeping in mind what I mentioned earlier about these choices > working > backwards, select the box in this list, in your case not wanting any > apostrophy's spoken, choose the all button. > 6. Now, if you want to make a change to another punctuation mark, > shift tab > back to the list and highlight a different punctuation mark, tab back > to the > radio buttons and select the box you prefer. > 7. After you are done making your changes tab to okay and press the > spacebar. > 8. Tab to apply, press the spacebar, tab to okay, press the spacebar > to save > your changes & close the Settings Center. > > Now, I hope that you are not as confused as I am after typing all of > this. > LOL Hope this has helped. > > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
