[HPFGU-OTChatter] Muggle Tech for Blind (was: Re: Wizard Challenge Game)

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

I'll make this short and sweet as I've got some RL things to attend to, but,
, catch me off list and we can hash more.

In the meantime, you wrote:

[bohcoo]:
| It wasn't until I looked at some of the maps and things on sites like
| that Lexicon that I could finally get the setting to somewhat make
| sense. So, I was wondering if you have confusions like I did -- and,
| how you resolve them.

[Lee]:
Simple...I ignore them. :-)  I sort of do a mental map using things I
personally can identify with and kill off the clutter, so to speak.  It's
complicated and probably stems from not having vision, but trying to
entertain thoughts of a large expanse of territory not having covered same
by one's two feet creates mental clutter, so it's broken down into immediate
areas.
|
| Bohcoo
| (I would love to hear how your screen reader says the Awh-h-h-h-k
| part of my post. [Big kind-but-evil-grin] Also, just as a matter of
| curiosity, what does your screen reader do when it hits a misspelled
| word?)

[Lee]:
Hmm--A lot of that depends which voice I'm using.  Let's see...the Scansoft
voices don't do really well at running letters, so each one is individually
pronounced.  The way you wrote it, the Eloquence voices don't handle it
well, either. :-)  They get as far as the "aw" but then give individual
consonants.  Gotta add more vowels into the hopper...like Aaaaaaahk! :-)

And if mis-spelled words are still within the phonetic range, again,
depending on the speech engine voices, the pronunciation should be close or
the same.

Again, pop me a note off list and we can continue more furtherer (and that's
not a typo; that's a Stormism.) :-)

Cheers, and enjoy the day.

Lee :-)

P.S.
Say a quickie prayer for Art who's having a basal cell thingy removed from
his nose as I'm sitting in the kitchen typing this.

Lee :)

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