Universal Accessibility Interest Group

  • 1.  Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 01, 2022 01:20 PM
    Hi all
     I have a colleague who is trying to help a blind student with Hebrew vocabulary.  They have PDFs of needed text to use in JAWS but it seems like JAWS has trouble dealing with Hebrew.
    Does anyone have any thoughts?

    thanks
    Jennifer Ulrich
    Eastern Mennonite University


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    Jennifer Ulrich
    Technical Services Librarian
    College
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  • 2.  RE: Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 01, 2022 10:14 PM
    Hi!  I don't know but I think the athen listserv would be a good place to ask that question. If you'd like, I could post it there and forward responses to you. It's free to join if you'd like to post it yourself
    Adina





  • 3.  RE: Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 02, 2022 07:55 AM
    Thanks Adina
    I'll subscribe and ask. 
    Jennifer

    Jennifer Ulrich Technical Services Librarian
     Hartzler Library
     Eastern Mennonite University

     540-432-4173
     emu.edu/library




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  • 4.  RE: Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 02, 2022 07:22 AM

    Hi Jennifer,

     

    I was dealing with this just last week (with Greek, not Hebrew).  This may not be your student's problem, but it turns out I didn't have a Greek voice installed! I was used to VoiceOver, which seems to have all that included out of the box.  I found this page very helpful https://www.freedomscientific.com/SurfsUp/Languages.htm and the voice I needed was easy and quick to install.

     

     

    Leigh Mosley

    Accessibility Coordinator

    University of Tennessee Libraries

    1015 Volunteer Boulevard

    Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

    865-974-0011

    lmosley1@utk.edu

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  • 5.  RE: Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 02, 2022 03:22 PM
    Others have some great suggestions here! The thought I had is that t he PDF may be part of the problem- if the document or text isn't tagged as Hebrew, the screen reader might have a hard time.

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    Anaya Jones She/Her/Hers
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  • 6.  RE: Help for Blind student using JAWS with Hebrew text

    Posted Nov 03, 2022 10:39 AM
    Edited by Ayana Looney Nov 03, 2022 10:40 AM
    Hello, I suggest reaching out to The Central Library for Blind and Reading Impaired People for expert advice. 
    Address: 76, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv, 6706701, Israel

    Online contact form: https://www.clfb.org.il/eng/contact-clfb/#h1
    WhatsApp 054-8663452
    Email: info@clfb.org.il
    Fax: 053-7975622


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    Sincerely,

    Ayana (eye-on-ah) Looney, MLIS
    Technical Services Library Assistant, California State Library
    Sacramento, CA 95814
    (916) 603-7136
    ayana.looney@library.ca.gov
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