[nabs-l] window eyes commands

T. Joseph Carter carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 06:19:18 UTC 2011


The ones from the System 7 era?  That are still in Mac OS X 10.7 
coming out next month for old times' sake?  ;)

Besides Alex which has had some additional tuning, 10.7 has the 
option of three Nuance voices—Samantha, Tom, and Jill.  There are 
also a collection of international voices.

Joseph


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:48:42PM -0600, Kirt Manwaring wrote:
>Ashley,
>  You think decktalk's robotic?  Listen to the old Apple speech
>synthesizers...I'll show you robotic!  *grin*
>
>On 6/9/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> dec talk sounds too robotic!  Its annoying.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Nusbaum
>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:55 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] window eyes commands
>>
>> Well that's good, Dectalk is annoying.  But the Dectalk archive
>> songs are pretty funny, especially its battles with Eloquence.
>> Maybe you could check on GW Micro's site.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>> --- Sent from my BrailleNote
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:22:30 -0400
>> Subject: [nabs-l] window eyes commands
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am getting a temporary job and I was informed I have to use
>> Window  Eyes, WE, and I am used to jaws.
>> At least I can change it to elloquence.
>>
>> So does anyone have a list of commands for it, the reading
>> commands I mean.
>> I need commands for things like read to end of screen; in jaws
>> that is insert down arrow.  Also read next/previous word, current
>> line, current sentence, next/previous paragraph would help.
>>
>> How are the internet commands different? I know that you move
>> through menus with the same arrows and hit enter on your menu
>> choice, just as with jaws; that is a keyboard thing, not a screen
>> reader thing.
>>
>> I heard you still have to turn on forms mode in We, where as jaws
>> you do not.  Are the hot keys the same, or are some the same.
>> Some of the hot keys for internet for jaws are:
>> insert f7: links list.
>> insert f5: headings list
>> Insert f9: frames list
>> H: headings
>> C: combo box
>> R: radio button
>> B: button
>> In jaws you can also custom label links and I think that command
>> is
>> Control insert tab.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips.
>> Ashley
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