[Athen] JAWS and RTF

[Robert Beach]

Dan,

I'm sorry, but I'm not clear on the issue.  Is the student saying that JAWS is not pausing at the end of each line, but they want it to?  Or, are they saying JAWS is pausing at the end of each line rather than at the end of the sentence?

I would think they would want the pause at the end of the sentence rather than at the end of the line.  If so, they need to set their "Read All" setting to "Sentence".  If they have done this, and they are still getting pauses at the end of lines rather than at the end of sentences, there may be some coding that needs to be looked.
If you'd like to send me a copy of the Word and RTF files, I can try doing some comparisons for you and see what I find.

Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS  66112
Phone: 913-288-7671
Fax: 913-288-7678
E-Mail: rbeach at kckcc.edu

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Dann Berkowitz
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:10 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] JAWS and RTF

Quick question folks --- 

Not withstanding an issue with the verbosity controls - is anyone familiar with JAWS having problems pausing at then end of lines BUT properly pausing and stoping at grammatical marks? This is in reference to JAWS reading RTF files. 

I have a client who has a student who is claiming that the RTF files we provided them are not working with JAWS. Specifically that JAWS is not pausing at the end of lines but IS pausing correctly at grammatical marks. Yet the student claims their verbosity settings are set properly. The files were converted from hardcopy using Abbyy Fine Reader and quality controlled using MS Word 2003 and saved to RTF. 

Any suggestions or insight would be greatly appreciated. 

Cheers --- Dann  

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