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Re: Quick Poll for JAWs users: Verbosity andPunctuationsettings.

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jul 27, 2012 12:25PM

Bim Egan wrote:
"Generally I think that the use of commas is more reliable than brackets, as
far as I can tell, all screen readers provide a slight pause when
encountering commas, but there's no such pause or inflection when brackets
are encountered. The inflection differs between screen readers, but a pause
is always available."

Interestingly, this brings the different TTS into the equation too. Most
Windows screen readers can be used with at least two different TTS these
days, and it's usually the TTS that defines this level of behaviour.

Léonie.