Screen-Readers (was RE: Reposting--RE: Apostrophes and quotes

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

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[Sherry G. said]:
| That's interesting, Lee.  With JAWS--that's my screen reading program, for
| all the sighted people on the list--I can supposedly turn off punctuation
| being spoken at all on a temporary basis.  but when I did this some very
| weird things happened, a nd I had to do a repair on the program and almost
| had to reinstall it.  I think it must have gotten confused by the conflict
| with my normal punctuation settings.  grin.

[Lee]: <Sigh>
There are things Jaws does better than Window-Eyes, but on-the-fly changes
aren't one of those things.  Because Jaws is run by scripted files, things
can get a bit dodgy, I think.  I've never used the program, so I can't say
for sure.  I have, however, seen the scripting language and tucked my head
under my wing and ran. <Grin>

Since Window-Eyes is so nicely menu-driven, it's a lot easier to turn things
on and off.

For those of you who don't use text-to-speech screen-readers, if you'd like
some demos to play with, you can get a demo of Window-Eyes from G.W.Micro
at:
http://www.gwmicro.com .
They also have an FTP site.

For the Jaws program that Sherry uses, I believe you'll find a demo at:
http://www.freedomscientific.com .

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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