Maria, I used the old-fashioned text based "winking smile" after my comment about appreciating those changes so as to unequivocally mark it as a humorous comment. This is composed of, one after the other, a semicolon, hyphen, and right parenthesis.
Some forums software, but not groups.io's, will insert the "modern" graphical equivalent when these are typed unless you override the feature. I just wondered if JAWS would be reading something to you like, "semicolon hyphen right parenthesis," which is annoying, superfluous, and completely removes any functional use of the text emoticon. Brian
