[nabs-l] window eyes commands

Fri Jun 10 06:21:50 UTC 2011

My first exposure to Mobile Samantha was on the Victor Stream.  She 
still grates on my nerves on the iPhone, and I prefer the mobile 
version of Tom.

I do prefer full version of Samantha, though.

Joseph

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:33:29PM -0700, Carly Mihalakis wrote:
>
>
>Samantha, sounds right.
>Has anyone observed that, blind dudes tend to be drawn to Samantha 
>and other female nararrators, while females tend to prefer Paul who 
>has always been my personal favorite back in the days when I used the 
>standalone OpenBook machine. I use K now. I  prefer to listen with  
>perfect Paul!
>Car:
>>I think the voice Over lady is Samantha.
>>
>>
>>On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Kirt Manwaring wrote:
>>
>>> Jorge,
>>>  I mean like Fred, Paul, Harry, Georgina or whatever her name is...I
>>> much prefer Reed myself.  *smile*  Oh-and someone should give the
>>> voiceover lady a name.  I like her, too.
>>>
>>> On 6/9/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> I didn't understand apple's synthesizer; back when I was first 
>>learning the
>>>> computer they had the Apple computer at school. It was harder to 
>>understand.
>>>> Eeek. Jaws is clearer with eloquence.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kirt Manwaring
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:48 PM
>>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] window eyes commands
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> ----- 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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