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From: Bevi Chagnon
Date: Tue, Sep 18 2012 11:29AM
Subject: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes
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A client passed along this website to me which has a character chart of ISO
8850 characters, Latin, symbols, etc. and how JAWS and Windows Eyes
recognize and voice them.
Does anyone know how accurate the data is?
http://www.accessibleculture.org/research-files/character-references/jaws-we
-all.php#arrows
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From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Sep 18 2012 12:08PM
Subject: Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bevi Chagnon wrote:
> Does anyone know how accurate the data is?
>
> http://www.accessibleculture.org/research-files/character-references/jaws-we
> -all.php#arrows
I went through the characters with JAWS 13 with IE9 and Firefox. The
findings presented in the table are entirely accurate with the default
verbosity settings in both browsers. Of note is that many of the
symbols are not read and some are read incorrectly. Nothing has
changed since this was last tested in 2008 with JAWS 9.
For comparison, I went through the characters with VoiceOver on Safari
and *all* of the characters were appropriately identified.
Jared Smith
WebAIM
From: Bevi Chagnon
Date: Tue, Sep 18 2012 4:18PM
Subject: Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes
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Thank you, Jared, for reviewing the chart.
This chart will be so helpful for my government clients.
Interesting that VoiceOver with Safari (Mac) identified the characters
without errors, but JAWS and WindowsEyes had errors.
Do you know if this has anything to do with Windows itself, or is it JAWS
and WE?
--Bevi
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From: Jason Kiss
Date: Tue, Sep 18 2012 4:41PM
Subject: Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes
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Hi Bevi,
I'm the one who performed that research with JAWS, Window-Eyes and
character references all those years ago. The issue is with the screen
readers. There's no reason (that I know of) that they couldn't, out of
the box, announce some kind of reasonable output for each character.
On a side note, I wouldn't say that VoiceOver identifies the
characters without errors. While VoiceOver's support for the
characters is excellent and impressive, I would quibble over the way
it identifies a few characters. And at least one character is, I would
argue, incorrectly identified. The acute accent character, ´ (´
or ´) VoiceOver misrepresents as the "prime" character. The
actual prime character is similar, but it is not the same, and is
denoted by ′ or ′. Still, compared to JAWS and
Window-Eyes, this is a very small matter.
Jason
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Bevi Chagnon < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Thank you, Jared, for reviewing the chart.
> This chart will be so helpful for my government clients.
>
> Interesting that VoiceOver with Safari (Mac) identified the characters
> without errors, but JAWS and WindowsEyes had errors.
> Do you know if this has anything to do with Windows itself, or is it JAWS
> and WE?
>
> --Bevi
>
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From: Ken Petri
Date: Wed, Sep 19 2012 9:27AM
Subject: Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes
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I'm wondering how much of this is, on Windows, dependent on the synthesizer
and/or the voice. I did some very quick browsing with NVDA with Firefox,
switching between SAPI 5 voices and eSpeak. There were differences. For
example, while eSpeak does not recognize the double-right quote mark
character, two of my SAPI 5 voices did announce it (when moving by
character).
ken
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Jason Kiss < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Hi Bevi,
>
> I'm the one who performed that research with JAWS, Window-Eyes and
> character references all those years ago. The issue is with the screen
> readers. There's no reason (that I know of) that they couldn't, out of
> the box, announce some kind of reasonable output for each character.
>
> On a side note, I wouldn't say that VoiceOver identifies the
> characters without errors. While VoiceOver's support for the
> characters is excellent and impressive, I would quibble over the way
> it identifies a few characters. And at least one character is, I would
> argue, incorrectly identified. The acute accent character, ´ (´
> or ´) VoiceOver misrepresents as the "prime" character. The
> actual prime character is similar, but it is not the same, and is
> denoted by ′ or ′. Still, compared to JAWS and
> Window-Eyes, this is a very small matter.
>
> Jason
>
> --
> Jason Kiss
> Web: www.accessibleculture.org
> Mobile: +64 21 929 238
> Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Twitter: @jkiss
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Bevi Chagnon < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> > Thank you, Jared, for reviewing the chart.
> > This chart will be so helpful for my government clients.
> >
> > Interesting that VoiceOver with Safari (Mac) identified the characters
> > without errors, but JAWS and WindowsEyes had errors.
> > Do you know if this has anything to do with Windows itself, or is it JAWS
> > and WE?
> >
> > --Bevi
> >
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> > Bevi Chagnon, = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> > PubCom - Trainers, consultants, designers, and developers
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> > * It's our 30th Year! *
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> >