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Re: Punctuation in JAWS

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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Jun 3, 2010 11:06AM

The amount of punctuation spoken by JFW and other screen readers is completely under the control of the user. This can range from announcing all punctuation, which is useful when editing a document, to announcing no punctuation at all, which I often prefer when just reading a document. This is all up to the individual users discretion. No changes in punctuation should be made to accommodate a screen reader. If you don't want to hear the parens just setting the punctuation verbosity to "some" should do the trick. To get to the verbosity settings use JAWS Key+v.

Mike Moore