Hi,
Oh, yes they do. Window-Eyes does it, and I believe that I've seen that
with Winvision at one time or another. At 07:08 AM 4/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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...
>>
>> --
>> 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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