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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jul 11, 2011 5:00PM

Reading by sentence is a Jaws feature. I think that's what you're
after anyway...

For a quick test:

Insert+V for Jaws (verbosity) options:
Way down under SayAll Options you have:

... Reads by line without pauses (that's the default I get); Reads by
sentence; Reads by Paragraph; Reads by line without pauses.

That should change the behavior. It can be changed permanently
(globally or stored separately for each application) under Jaws,
Utilities > Settings Center.

Patrick


At 03:29 PM 7/11/2011, David Ashleydale wrote:
>The PDF is tagged. I don't have a copy that I can show you right now,
>unfortunately. But using the text I wrote earlier as an example, that whole
>paragraph shows up in the tag tree as one paragraph. When I choose the
>"Highlight Content" option for the Tags, and then click on that paragraph in
>the tag tree, the whole paragraph highlights in the document.
>
>However, when I listen to it with JAWS 12, it pauses at the end of each
>line, even though the whole thing is all in one paragraph tag.
>
>Note: no pausing occurs when I tell JAWS to just read the entire document
>from top to bottom. It does that fine. This only occurs when I start at the
>top of the PDF and navigate through the document using the Down Arrow.
>
>Thanks,
>David
>
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Duff Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > If the PDF is correctly tagged, you should get each paragraph without
> > pauses.
> >
> > If the PDF hasn't been tagged, or is tagged poorly, then the text-stream
> > delivered to you as an AT user is a crapshoot in the first instance.
> >
> > In such cases, if you are lucky enough to ONLY suffer pauses, consider
> > yourself fortunate!
> >
> > Duff Johnson
> >
> > US Committee for ISO/DIS 14289 (PDF/UA), Chair
> >
> > p +1 617.283.4226
> > e <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > t http://www.twitter.com/duffjohnson
> > w http://www.duff-johnson.com
> >
> >
>