[bksvol-discuss] Re: blank blank blank blahs
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:45:41 -0500
Dear Jake, Robin, Gerald and Julie,
Thank you for your suggestions. I'll be trying them as the problem pops up
though I'm not sure I understand my zoom and attributes. And, is the jaws
key the application key, the alt, the insert or the control key?
I did notice Jaws was stumped by very large type. Not wanting to spend years
on a validation, I just deleted and wrote the words, usually chapter names,
in smaller print. Doing that made me feel queasy, but I sometimes try to
find solutions on my own, compromising a little so as not to bombard this
list with hoards of my questions.
Today, jaws is simply skipping lines not even saying blank. As per your
suggestions, I checked word by word and discovered that if the cursor is on
an italicized word, jaws refuses to read that line. Not being sure how to
tell it it's OK to read italics, I found that if I go, word by word to a
word in normal type, and then use the up or down arrow to read the line, it
is read perfectly.
If I get to a line that is all italics, maybe I can get the computer to read
it by getting my cursor on a space and pressing control I to turn off the
italics for that space , thereby not disturbing the text, and then using the
up then down arrow to hear the line.
Do these solution sound correct?
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank blank blank blahs
HI, lissi. Sometimes, Insert-Escape refreshes the page and helps. Maybe
change your Zoom setting for the document in the view menu. Those are just
a
few things I can think of. Take care.
Julie Morales
Life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to Him.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] blank blank blank blahs
Dear Volunteers,
Yes, I know. No surprise. I have another computer question.
While attempting to independently validate away with RTF files using
windows
xp, Jaws, 6.1, and microsoft word, I have a problem which to me seems very
arbitrary and slows down my validating so much.
It seems random that for some lines jaws says blank instead of reading the
words. If I didn't have my very little vision in one eye, I'd think words
were missing. I can't read the small print on my computer screen but can
usually tell there is writing there so I know there are no blanks where
jaws
is saying blank.
I've tried some made up remedies in desperation. Sometimes these so called
blank lines allow me to read them character by character. If I delete a
word
and type it back in again, the line magically allows itself to be read.
This
is a slow process and unreliable.
When all I get are blanks, I try inserting and then removing spaces, I
know
not where and sometimes the line becomes readable.
Sometimes, I note a word so I can find my place and shut down when nothing
I
try gets jaws to stop saying blank at me. I've even opened a file only to
hear jaws say blank for all of it. sometimes alt tabbing around to other
open programs helps but strangely, alt fouring the program, going back to
the desktop and highlighting it and reopening it doesn't often work in
which
case a reboot is my only recourse.
Can anyone help with this? I've set myself some long, detailed
validations,
as well as some short, fun ones and this is such a counterproductive
reoccurring problem.
With many thanks and
Always with love,
Lissi
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