Usually, Marty, if you look at the spelling of people's names, you can figure out that JAWS is mispronouncing the name. Usually I look at the spelling of names, even when I know JAWS is not

Have you ever been embarrassed by mispronouncing someone's name, because you said it the way JAWS said it and it was dreadfully wrong? I have and it's not fun. I just blame it on JAWS and

hmmm,, I hear the letter a when loading chrome but it actually isn't there. I paste my link in and chrome goes to the link with no problem. so its my guess that jaws is speaking a ghost letter,

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 05:20 AM, Steve Nutt wrote: I doubt it, since the hotkey is disappearing. Any kind of maximising won’t make any difference.- I concur, and because when you open the properties

Hi, Steve. I opened Chrome with Narrator, pressed CONTROL plus L for the address bar, tabbed away, and back to Chrome, and Narrator still wouldn't read the Chrome address bar, when I would put in a

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 05:27 AM, Steve Nutt wrote: Is there some underlined A by the address bar field by any chance? You’d be able to tell us that as a sighted person. If there is, JAWS could be

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 07:04 AM, Steve Nutt wrote: But remember, it's not the screen reader that initially pronounces the word wrong, it's the synthesiser. Sometimes, if you change synth, you will get

I’m surprised that anyone would discourage JAWS users from taking advantage of the dictionary. One reason, as Karen says, is that JAWS can pump incorrect pronunciations into our heads that are

Hi Mike and others, Thank you so much for answering my question. I knew there was a way, but couldn’t remember it. Normally I don’t change things either, but this one really stood out as odd.

Steve Thanks for that reminder; and this certainly complicates things and strengthens my belief that, in most instances, one is better off leaving well enough alone. Presumably, since JAWS has a

But remember, it's not the screen reader that initially pronounces the word wrong, it's the synthesiser. Sometimes, if you change synth, you will get a correct pronunciation. All the best Steve

Adrian When screen readers for a pc first became available widely, probably in the mid 1980s or so, pronunciations mishaps bothered me. But, as I continued using screen readers (initially on the

Brian you raise a good point. Out of curiosity, I brought up the last version of Window-Eyes, We9.54, which does exactly the same thing -- which, of course, was released a good number of years

Brian makes a great point here. Initially, I was much like Karen upset when a word was mispronounced expecting a screen reader to be a perfect speaker of the English language and my version of the

Hi Bill, You can get Narrator to read the address bar, if you alt tab away from, and back to, Chrome once you’ve opened it. It seems that Narrator doesn’t recognise that you’ve opened a

Hi Brian, I think it is a bug in Chrome, because I get it, but I ignore it. Is there some underlined A by the address bar field by any chance? You’d be able to tell us that as a sighted

Hi Brian, That’s a good tip. I don’t use it, simply because you can press insert Up Arrow in the replacement edit field to get the pronunciation, but it’s not a bad idea. All the

Hi, You want to learn about the JAWS dictionary manager for this. See this link for an intro:-

I doubt it, since the hotkey is disappearing. Any kind of maximising won’t make any difference. All the best Steve

Mike, A couple of notes: Once you press insert-d, you’re situated on the “Add” button. No need to tab. Instead, press spacebar. Second, you’ll often find yourself with focus on the