Hi Doug; When do you want Jaws to say the period and when would you like for Jaws not to sayy the period. For me Jaws only reads the period when I read character by character or word by word. My settings are for Verboscity, " some ", in the configuration manager / Text Processing punctuation is controlled by Jaws, in configuration manager Customize Punctuation the most common punctuation marks are set to " most ", and in Jaws Options / Global punctuation is set at " some ". Hope this helps. Take care.
Mike, It's tax time! Remember folks, if you add, IRS to the word, the, you get "T H E I R S ". That spells THEIRS! ----- Original Message ----- From: douglas dunlap To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Here is something else I have discovered. Now JAWS is reading the period in all applications when I read one line At a time or use the say all command. It is only as I type a period That JAWS is silent. I just finished typing a . and JAWS was silent, However I typed a , and JAWS said comma. Does that help anyway. Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hello Doug, If the verbosity for punctuation is set to "most", and the level for period in the customize punctuation dialog in the configuration manager is also set to "most", you should be hearing the period spoken. There are a couple other possibilities that you might check. First of all, if you are using the Eloquence synthesizer with JAWS default settings then check in the text processing dialog box in the configuration manager to see if JAWS is controlling the punctuation mode. Another possibility to consider is if you were trying to get JAWS to not speak a greater than sign in the dictionary manager, if you accidentally didn't press the shift key with the period for the greater than sign then you might have told JAWS not to speak the period. I have listed steps below for how to check the first possible scenario, and a second set of steps shown below is for how to check in the dictionary manager. CHECKING HOW PUNCTUATION MODE IS BEING CONTROLLED 1. Use JAWS key with F2 to bring up the list of JAWS managers. 2. Press the letter "c" until the configuration manager choice is in focus and press enter key. 3. When the configuration manager appears use CTRL+shift+D to bring up the default configuration manager. 4. When the default configuration manager window is in focus then use Alt+S to bring up the settings menu. 5. Use down arrow key to the "text processing" menu choice and press enter key. 6. When the dialog box appears then use tab key to move to the "punctuation mode" box. If the setting is on "synthesizer" then use up or down arrow key to choose "JAWS." 7. Use tab key to the OK button and press enter key or spacebar. 8. Use CTRL+S to save changes and then Alt+f4 to close the default configuration manager. 9. If the problem is only happening in one application then when working in that application bring up the configuration manager as shown above but ignore step 3. CHECKING THE DICTIONARY MANAGER 1. Use JAWS key with D to bring up the JAWS dictionary file. If you start in an application that hasn't had a dictionary file created for it then you might get the "new dictionary" dialog. If that happens then tab to OK and press enter key. 2. When the dictionary file is open then use shift+CTRL+D to load the default dictionary file. 3. Use tab key to move to a tree view containing a list of actual words and replacement words. 4. Use down arrow key through the list to check if there is any entry for the period mark. If there is then use tab key to the change button and press enter key or spacebar. In the resulting dialog box type a period mark in the actual word edit box and then tab to the replacement word edit box and type in a period mark. Tab to OK and press enter key, and then use CTRL+S to save changes and Alt+f4 to close the dictionary manager. 5. If it is only in a specific application such as your Email program where you are not hearing the period spoken, open the dictionary manager using JAWS key with the letter "D" while focus is in your Email program. In this case do not load the default dictionary manager. 6. Follow steps 3 and 4 shown above in this set of steps. I hope you get the period being spoken again. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of douglas dunlap Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 5:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Brian And punctuation verbosity are both set to same and announcement still Does not work. Could I have deleted this function somehow? I am confused. Any other suggestions Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Lee Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hello Doug, If your punctuation level in verbosity is set to "most" then the level for announcing the period should be set to "most", "some" or "none" in the "customize punctuation" dialog box. 1. Press JAWS key with V to bring up the verbosity dialog box. 2. Press the letter "p" until you find the punctuation choice. 3. It is likely set to the most choice and if so just escape out-of-the dialog box. 4. Use JAWS key with F2 to bring up the list of JAWS managers. 5. Press the letter "C" until you find the choice for the configuration manager and press enter key. 6. Press CTRL+shift+D to load the default configuration manager. 7. Use Alt+S to go into the settings menu. 8. Use down arrow key until you find the choice for customizing punctuation and press enter key. 9. Press a period key to move focus to that punctuation mark. If it is set to the "all" choice then you won't hear it announced when punctuation in verbosity is set to the "most" choice. Press spacebar until something other than the "all" level is chosen. The level for the punctuation in the custom punctuation settings should be the same or lower than what is chosen in the verbosity. If it is set to "all" and the verbosity level for punctuation is "most" then you won't hear it spoken. 10. Use tab key to the OK button and press enter key or spacebar. 11. Use CTRL+S to save changes and Alt+f4 to close the configuration manager. Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of douglas dunlap Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question David I tried those instructions three times to no avail. Period still does not announce. Is there anything else I can try. Thanks for your help Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hello there; have jaws speak your period's again, 1, insert+f2, c=configuration manager press enter. 2, now, press, ctrl+shift+d=default manager. 3, now press alt+s=options, 4, now press the letter K=keyboard options. 5, shift+tab one time you should hear, general, right arrow one time, you should hear key-labels. 6, now tab one time, your in a list, press, the letters, S&Y=symbols, you will hear, no labels speak, tab one time, and, press, the spacebar on, toggle mute button, now, tab and press enter, on, okay button, alt+f4, and say yes to changes. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "douglas dunlap" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:22 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] keyboard manager question Hi Everyone, At some point I went into the keyboard manager and turned the announcement of the period Off. 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