other screen readers do not exhibit this behavior.
Doug Lee wrote:
>
> I think this is an application thing. MS Word and WordPad, and quite a
> number of other programs exhibit this behavior, but Notepad does not. I
> rather wish none would. :-) It seems to be a difference between JAWS' and
> Windows application definitions of what a "word"is. JAWS counts anything
> delimited by spaces as a word; Windows programs like Word define a word as
> a series of characters of the same class (e.g., letters or punctuation
> marks). Thus, the line
>
> She said, "Help me!"
>
> contains four words to JAWS and Notepad, but seven to Word and WordPad.
> One of those oddities I end up explaining to my students in time...
>
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> Doug Lee, Computer Instructor
> BLIND, Inc. (Blindness: Learning In New Dimensions)
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Claus Th�gersen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find it very strange that the command to move a word forward or backwards seems
>to be working strangely, if the word you move over contains puctuation characters.
>This seems not to be happening in one program it hapens both in Word97 and in Outlook
>Express. Words like e.g. or U.S. are strange if I move word by word using ctrl+left
>arrow or ctrl+right arrow I have to use the command 4 times to get by the words with
>dots or other punctuation charactersto the following word. Is this an application
>thing or a JFW thing?
> >
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