Hi John, Think you're on to something with that. I have gone to one of the newsfeed articles on the site (that's where the problem occurs), used Firefox instead of Internet Explorer )following on something I read a little while ago), and still found the offending character. I then selected the text of an article (which included everything in it), copied to clipboard and pasted this into a new Word document. I then went into the Word document and, sure enough, the soft hyphens were there aplenty. (I've put one in midword here, both for show and to see how it gets treated by Outlook Express when sent.) there were 439 soft hyphens in the Word document. I did a find and replace (replacement field left blank) for the soft hyphen ANSI173 character. that's quite a lot! [This just might be one case where changing the layout to Simple Document layout might be somewhat desirable. Perhaps there's room for some more experiment with JAWS settings...]
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem I just had a thought about this problem. I wonder if the material in that site is put through one of those universal translators. This is a program which takes text in any language just about and converts it to other languages on the fly so to speak. The World Science site is visited by people all over the planet. It may be sophisticated enough to recognize the visitor's location and translate the text accordingly. The Universal Translator breaks words up into smaller increments as it is translating. Then, the word is reassembled on the printed page. Why it does this, I have no idea but FedEx uses similar technology in their sites and you wouldn't believe some of the odd results. Anyway, Jaws might be seeing some of those hidden processing notations and reacting. Now, how can we get it to ignore things like your hidden messages and other text processing functions. Have you tried doing a screen shot and then saving it to Word or one of the other text handling programs? Maybe, in the translation, the hidden separators would be lost. John Justice ----- Original Message ----- >From: "carlene knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:26 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Strange reading problem > Hi: > > My husband says that visually the web page, http://www.world-science.net > looks normal. I think that JAWS is seeing graphics that aren't visible, > even though it can't decipher them. At work, I use to see strange words > like Franchise and Cisco when they weren't visible to the sighted. They > couldn't figure out what in the world I was talking about when I > inquired about them. Sometimes when I log onto Windows at work I see > something that says tray tab, and my computer goes super slow. I end up > rrebooting, but nobody can see this thing, and so they don't know what > it is to correct it. > > Carlene > > 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]
