Rebecca, Yes, I'd read the documentation and had high hopes that were soon dashed. However, in the past I'd also noticed that the "go to" command verbalized a page number. so on getting your message just now, I tried it on the Bookshare book I'm currently reading. No luck. JAWS just said something like 000. That was odd. I opened another book and tried control-g there. This time it verbalized the current page number.
So, as you suggest, book producers format pagination inconsistently. But when it's formatted right for a screenreader, control-g is the answer. Too bad that I would find it helpful in my current book. Thanks for your determination or stubbornness. Whichever it is, it gets results. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Rebecca Lineberger Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:18 PM To: jaws user's list <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Subject: [JAWS-Users] FS Reader And Page Numbers, Followup As a followup to what I wrote below, in Kurzweil's defense, FS Reader would not open the long Daisy book that Kurzweil could not open. Back to plan b,c, or d? Smile. Rebecca Hello Adrian, Call it determination or just stubbornness, smile, but I think I've found a work-around for determining where you are when using FS Reader. I downloaded a Daisy book from Bookshare and unzipped it. FS Reader opened it and the book was easily navigated, with links and headings, just as in a web page. There didn't seem to be page numbers at the bottom or top of pages when I used the page-down key, so I tried the go to page command, control-g. At first, I just typed in a page number and pressed enter, and after a pause, was taken there. Then, after paying a bit more attention to what I was hearing in the go to page dialogue, smile, I realized that it indeed gives you the page number of your current location-which is exactly what you wanted. So just press control-g and it will say 30, 41 of 356, for example, because the introductory pages which are numbered with Roman numbers are included in the total count. If all you want is the current page number, press escape and you're back to the text. I have to thank you for forcing me to try something new. Sometines needing to teach something is the best way to learn oneself! LOL. There have been occasions where my older version of Kurzweil could not open a very long book. I'll now have to try those with FS Reader. Initially at first glance though, FS has done a nice job with this, and it may give me access to books I could not get my ears around before. I'd even played with opening epub books, they open automatically in Edge, but I still find them cumbersome. . HTH. Rebecca "The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better" From: Center for Action and Contemplation For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
