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Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes

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From: Ken Petri
Date: Sep 19, 2012 9:27AM

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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Ken Petri



On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Jason Kiss < <EMAIL 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, ´ (&acute;
> or &#180;) VoiceOver misrepresents as the "prime" character. The
> actual prime character is similar, but it is not the same, and is
> denoted by &prime; or &#8242;. 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 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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