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Hey, after yesterday's #WindowsUpdate it seems that #JAWSForWindows is once again reading file properties. #Yay

I am very dismayed to discover that at least today when using either #JAWSForWindows 25 or 26 I can no longer read file attributes such as file creation date, date modified and file location within file properties no matter which cursor I try to use for that purpose. Can this information be accessed with either #Narrator or #NVDA?

This is quite the mystery. Although I muted my home timeline and my sent timeline in #FastSM when it's not in focus every once in a while I'll hear one of its sounders but I have no clue from where it's coming or what it's indicating. It's also interesting to me that when employing the keystroke for mute in the main window of the application #JawsForWindows will verbalize the state of being muted or unmuted but when I interact with the corresponding menu entry in the timeline menu it does not. #NVDA tries its best to verbalize the state of the menu entry but seems to cut itself off. But surprisingly, #Narrator wins this screen reader showdown as it will verbalize the state of the menu entry after having been acted upon. But none of the 3 screen readers reports the state when merely scrolling through the menu. I hope that made sense. #FastSM

Power users of pronunciation dictionaries, I have a pretty specific situation here. The person I'm proofing for uses actual space characters rather than tabs at the beginnings of his paragraphs, this results in having runs reported by text analyzer every time I get to a new paragraph. Having JAWS speak character count works, but this usually means seeing the space count at the beginning of each paragraph twice unless I turn off indentation indication. Yet, I need indentation indication to report justification levels such as centered or whether or not text is justified. I mark the ends of my sentences with one space. He marks them with two. is there a way I can make one dictionary entry that will allow me to set a sound to play when there are two spaces after colons or other other punctuation marks that normally end sentences? Or do I have to create an entry for every one of these? Just creating one for two spaces doesn't work because it gets triggered when two or more spaces in a row are encountered, so the three spaces my client uses for paragraph starters gets indicated... and we're back to square one. Help? #JAWS #JFW #JAWSForWindows #A11y #SpeechDictionaries #Blind #Screenreader #Technology #Proofreading #Editing

#JAWSForWindows users, Anyone figured out how to get the usual alt+number shortcuts working properly in the new Outlook? Any help appreciated. Thanks. PS: please don’t tell me to use classic outlook. #Blind #ScreenReader #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind