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Re: <strong> vs <em>

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Feb 14, 2007 2:00PM

At 12:21 PM 2/14/2007, Hunt, Jan wrote:
>Rebecca wrote -
>Just to clarify my earlier comments, screen readers (or at least Jaws)
>_can_ differentiate, it's just that most users don't switch the facility
>on.
>
>JAN-
>That's what I thought might be happening but I have not found anywhere
>within the JAWS or HomePage Reader software, nor within their
>documentation, anything that talks about turning on any such capability.

For Jaws 8 & IE7, Try this:

Insert-F6 from within IE. (This will bring up the Jaws Config Manager
with the IE config file open.)

Go to the Settings Menu > Speech & Sounds Manager. Choose one of the
options from the list, such as "Proofreading: Attributes, Font Info
and Color". Save your choice & read a web page. This will cause very
interesting changes in the speech output for various HTML features
(based on the parameters in Settings > Voice Aliases).


Granted this doesn't tell you about <strong> or <em> per se. Instead
Jaws tells you about & reacts to the font, color etc. that the
browser or stylesheet uses to display the emphasis. But the change in
speech is definitely there.

Apologies if this still isn't what you're after.

Patrick
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