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Short Description
How to configure "Manage Key Labels" so that JAWS® and ZoomText® Fusion 11 only speak numbers as you type without echoing each letter pressed
Problem
In JAWS (and ZoomText® Fusion 11), when typing echo is set to “characters” or “words and characters”, all numbers and letters are echoed while typing. Some would prefer hearing the keyboard numbers, functions, and symbols but not each letter pressed. Follow the steps below to mute the speaking of letters while typing.
NOTE: Letters will still be echoed while backspacing or deleting them.
Solution
To mute the speaking of each keyboard letter pressed:
- Open the JAWS UI (INSERT+J).
- Navigate to Utilities>Settings Center.
- In Settings Center, ensure the Default File is selected (CTRL+SHIFT+D).
- Type “Key Labels”.
- Arrow down to “Manage Key Labels”, then press SPACEBAR to open the dialog.
- Select “Letters” (by pressing “L” to move to the items that start with an L, then arrow down to “Letters”).
- Press the SPACEBAR in order to mute letter echo.
- Select OK to exit the dialog.
- Select OK to exit “Settings Center”.
NOTE: Typing echo options are selected in the first screen of the JAWS Startup Wizard.
- Open the JAWS UI (INSERT+J).
- Open Help>Startup Wizard.
- Under “Typing echo”, select one of the following:
- Off
- Characters
- Words
- Characters and words
NOTE: Muting the “Letters” echo, as described above, will only affect the behavior of character echo in the typing echo settings for “characters” and “characters and words.”
Date Posted: 06/21/2017
Applies to: JAWS, Fusion and Enhanced Vision
Applies to: JAWS, Fusion and Enhanced Vision