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On 4/20/2018 7:02 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
OK, I found the culprit. It's the word "MAC"!


Something else odd is also going on because on some Web pages I hear phrases and sometimes entire short sentences spelled out with VO that I don't get presented that way in Windows, so there's probably some funky punctuation going on that maybe makes VO think the string is one big word, something, I just don't know. Next time I trip over this, I'll make careful note of it and post about it, along with the object that created/caused the spelling behavior.


On 4/20/2018 9:50 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
That might have to do with how CSS is set up for those advertisements. If I type BIG SAVINGS my VoiceOVer reads the words and not the letters. Though while typing it it spoke the letters.

I have on occasion put a word into the pronunciation dictionary that did not handle the speaking of letters vs speaking of word pronunciation the way I wanted it to. And then while doing HTML editing I added The string indicating the beginning of a HTML comment to say HTML comment. I can remember off hand if I added the equivalent dictionary entry for the end of comment marker.

Best Wishes,

Jonathan

On Apr 20, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2018 9:33 PM, E.T. wrote:
    I think VO as it stands, handles this properly. I opened a document in TextEdit and entered several acronyms. VO read them as expected, for example it reads ACLU as A C L U. There is a setting you might look at in VO Utility, Verbosity category, Text tab. It's an option that affects how capital letters are handled.
But that's single letters. Whenever I run into something in all capital letters, like an advertisement  with capital letters in a double-height double-wide font that says "big big savings" or something similar, I hear this:

B I G  S A V I N G S

without the spaces, of course. Every time I read something with the phrase "MAC address," I hear "M A C address." The setting to which you refer is only for single letters. The above examples are the kinds of things I want eliminated.

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