Category: accessible Devices
Hi everyone,
I recently discovered the text analyzer in JAWS 13, and it has made editing text much easier. But there's one thing I've noticed while editing with JAWS, and it's really bugging me. Whenever I read using Say-all mode, or by paragraph, JAWS will not announce spelling or gramatical errors. Furthermore, when I read by line, it tells me there is a spelling/gramatical error, but only sometimes. To find it, I have to hunt by word, and that's time-consuming. Is there any way to have JAWS announce, even when you read via say-all and by paragraphs? And is there a way to have JAWS announce such errors at the point in which they appear? I know about the commands for next gramatical and spelling error while using the quick-key commands, but I'm hoping there's still a way to do this. I've been up and down the settings center to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
the only way of doing this would be to modify your scheme under 'speech and sound schemes'
I havn't figured this yet but noow I have done so in the past as I do a lot of writing, I'll get back asap with a full solution.
ok
assuming some knowledge of jaws
go in to speech and sound schemes, (in settings centre)
choose edit scheme
choose the atributes tab,
choose the add button
tick spelling error
click next and set options either to have it read via a voice alias or play a sound.
click finish, say yes to modifying/saving etc etc.
did this work for you?
Jack
Or on the fly I will sometimes do alt+window+i I think it is, that jumps to the next inconsistency that Text Analyzer will find.
Or if you want to move to the next sentence where Word knows about a grammatical error one way to do it I've found is turn on Quick Navigation keys with insert z when in Word, then push a or push shift and a to go back by one error.
Gets you to the sentence where the error is found, quick for scanning stuff like this.
Maybe a way to make some of this happen with their Skim Read summary thing also but I don't know.
Thanks Jack. I tried your suggestion, which is something I was playing around with earlier myself. For some reason, spelling errors still won't be announced JAWS reads them while I'm reading by paragraph. Only time it will do it is if the spelling error is the first word. I tried changing it to a sound, but to no avail. For some reason it didn't even play the sound, just continued announcing misspelled". It works with Italic however, which is quite useful.
Leo, I like your suggestion, and have been using it off and on ever since I learned about it. It was my go-to as well. But I like to correct while I'mr eading,, which is why I thought I'd check into this.
I think its fair to say that that's a bug, or some such, as I cvan't get it to work. its one of those really annoying things that could be very easily done via a script. oh well when the zone fails, maybe we need to bring a case with FS support? I work with Blazie who are the UK distributers, so would be happy to try.