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From: Sarah Jevnikar
Date: Jun 14, 2018 10:04AM

Hi everyone,
Firstly, this is mainly a personal issue (rather than a professional one)
I've been experiencing, but it got me curious nonetheless and I'm hoping you
have some thoughts on the subject.

I'm taking French classes, and we've been using a lot of YouTube videos. The
rest of the class can read the subtitles, but I didn't have such access.
NVDA wouldn't read them. I just discovered that JAWS will. Do You know why
this could be? I'm running Firefox ESR, NVDA 2018.2, JAWS 17, and Chrome 67.
Would or could these captions be pushed to a Braille display? I know this is
a pretty limited use case, but I'm curious all the same.
Thank you for any thoughts you might have,
Sarah

Sarah Jevnikar, CPACC

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