moderated Re: Is there a way to not have Vocalizer substitute what it thinks works for abbreviations?
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Richard Turner
Mike, These are good instructions. Sadly, the Nathan voice ignores those settings. I’ve tried it with expand abbreviations uncheck and checked and the same with the one below that for acronym’s, and Nathan always says good instead of gd, so Nathan must be a braille reader, 😁.
Richard "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Mike B
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:32 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Is there a way to not have Vocalizer substitute what it thinks works for abbreviations?
Hi Steve,
Jaws does have an option to expand abbreviations or not, it's in the Settings Center, in both the applications Settings Center and Settings Center default all applications. Look here. 1. Insert + 6, to open the Settings Center while in an specific application, or then press, Control, shift + D, for default all applications.
2. Down arrow to, Web / HTML / PDFs closed, and right arrow to open.
3. Down arrow to, Reading closed, and right arrow to open.
4. Down arrow to, Expand Abbreviations, and there you go.
----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Nutt Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 8:55 AM Subject: Re: Is there a way to not have Vocalizer substitute what it thinks works for abbreviations?
Hi David,
I wish JAWS would have an option to not expand abbreviations.
If you buy CodeFactory’s version of Vocalizer, it has a setting in its own settings to disable abbreviation expansion. Apparently, it is a screen reader flag, so JAWS should be able to do it.
All the best
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
On Behalf Of David Goldfield
The fact is that these modern, human-sounding synthesizers are absolutely notorious for doing this. To me it's maddening as I don't want my reader, human or synthetic, to substitute what's on the screen for what it thinks are the correct replacements based on commonly used abbreviations. This is one reason why there will always be a place for voices like Eloquence and ESpeak. David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019
WWW.DavidGoldfield.org
On 9/15/2020 11:38 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
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