This is where I think JAWS excels over VO, JAWS has so many different ways it handles numbers and is very smart about it. It can be set to recognise phone numbers, and it can also read numbers out as pairs so they are spoken as words, such as 1 would be read out as nine teen etc. I was disappointed to see that number handling in VO had not been improved.
Where VO does kick JAWS ass though is with title attribute in HTML. THis has proven to be a real headache for me with the default settings for JAWS. On 29 Aug 2011, at 08:46, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi all > > I think I need to qualify my last post a little. I'm talking about the way > screen interpretation is changed. I have the "VO Utility > Verbosity > Text > > speak numbers as" setting set to "words". However, I did this because I > don't want to hear, for instance in the mailbox messages list, "one seven > messages, one six unread". I prefer to hear "seventeen messages, sixteen > unread". But the version numbers of programmes etc. is being taken way too > literally, and it's being translated into something totally different. The > version number in Esther's message, for instance, with the above VO setting > set to "words" is spoken as "Version the first of February two thousand and > twenty-eight". > > I think we need some sort of half-way house here. There shouldn't only be > one rule which covers everything. I need to think about this one a little, > before approaching Apple with a solution. But I just hate everything being > read as digits so I will keep that setting set to words and, for now, I guess > I'll just have to tolerate it. > > Gordon > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
