The strange character is called a soft hyphen, and is one of two types of hyphens used in html - the other being the plain hyphen. Those wanting to find out more about it may Google it or go to Wikipedia and browse under 'hyphen' or 'soft hyphen'. It is supposed to be used to indicate where line-breaks may occur. I think the people at the world-science site need to be told that their use of soft hyphens in the final construction of the page is a stumbling block for screen-readers, which will read everything (given half a chance, including the normally hidden elements). This use of soft hyphens is still (thankfully) not generally accepted, or at least is controversial in some places. I hope this clears up any doubts remaining about its provenance.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem Just because you don't see it, or someone else doesn't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there. Change your ANSI verbosity from None to something like, "say word, also say line", or radiobutton 3 or higher of 5. (Go into the config manager with Insert+6, alt+s, g for Graphics and Symbols, then on the group of five radiobuttons for ANSI choose another than none or higher than what you are at present on and Then read the page again. The character is definitely there - for JAWS.) [the pound symbol is £ ANSI 163, and that's not it. I'll try to locate a document wherein most of the ANSI symbols are specified, that should identify it correctly. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "carlene knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem 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] 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]
