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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jan 23, 2007 2:30AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:

"I believe (and Léonie will elbow me if I'm wrong) that square brackets aren't read by Jaws on default settings..."

For Jaws at least, the default punctuation level is "Most", which would read out square brackets. It's reasonable to assume that many screen reader users will alter the default punctuation level to something less intrusive though.

In Jaws at least, the punctuation settings are among the easier configurations to find, housed along with the speech rate and pitch settings, which many people also adapt fairly early on in their time using a screen reader.

Regards,
Léonie.