No, it says nothing when on those symbols. I just go across the words that are affected, a character at a time, and each time JAWS encounters these symbols, there's just quiet spaces.
Carlene Jewel Blanch wrote: > I did copy the link to word and did a search and replace for hidden hyphen, > but I was told that a search could not locate the symbol > Is jaws reading pounds to you? I wrote * symbol. Good grief! it has done > it again. Let me try spacing the word out and see if that gets past the > crazy animal! s y m b o l HAA HAA!Take that! I am smarter than you! > > Jewel > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Flor Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:53 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem > > > >> JAWS is seeing ANSI character 173, some sort of hyphen (it's late here, so >> > I > >> may look it up later on.) Perhaps an 'optional hyphen', not the standard >> hyphen or dashes. I can feel a hyphen on my braille display, so that (for >> example) we may get 'pop-u-lar' for 'popular'. >> >> > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
