[stylist] Screen Readers and Word or Open Office was/

[Brenda]

Hey Eve
Check out NVDA which is a FREE screen reader.  I am pretty but not 
100%sure it will read Open Office.

Also, are you in a position to get help from your local State agency?
Brenda


On 3/5/2012 1:33 AM, Eve Sanchez wrote:
> Barbara, I can not write in Braille as I do not have a Braille writer and
> my arthritis does not allow me to do much with a slate and style. Thanks
> for the suggestion though. Also, it is not the computer voice that gets to
> me. It is that I do not have Word which is a  good program. I have Open
> Office which does not read through. I have to arrow down and for some
> reason it keeps adding line numbers in its dictation. Also if I get too low
> without scrolling, it rereads a past line. Annoying, but at least I have a
> computer so I deal with it. I do like to complain though. haha Diolch, Eve
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ashley Bramlett
> <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Eve,
>> Do you know braille? I suggest writing your poems out in braille on paper.
>> That way you can read back yourself and see the line breaks for stanzas and
>> punctuation. You're right the computer voice can never do poetry right. If
>> I read poems with it, what I do is read through once straight through.
>> Then, I read stanza by stanza. The key to do this is the paragraph
>> keystroke, control down arrow.
>> This still interrupts the
>> flow, but at least you can sort of see the poem structure then.
>> -----Original Message----- From: Eve Sanchez
>> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 10:36 PM
>>
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] new writing assignment?
>>
>> Ashley, I agree with your comment about poetry and screen readers. I
>> figured it was just that I am not as profficient a screen reader reader as
>> some. I dont know, it just does not flow. I notice this with my own poetry
>> as well and have a difficult time with it as I cannot enlarge it enough for
>> me to be able to read visually and I do not like the way the computer reads
>> it. That is one reason I do not generally share poetry or comment on
>> poetry. If anyone has suggestions around this I would appreciate it. I try
>> to get a human t read for me at times to better hear flow, but you need a
>> good reader for that also. Not all people know how to read poetry or verse.
>> Diolch, Eve
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ashley Bramlett
>> <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>**wrote:
>>
>>   Brad,
>>> Good luck with your career change. I hope you are happy and successful in
>>> something new. I haven't started my first job as I just finished undergrad
>>> school a few years ago. But I want to use my writing skills where ever I
>>> go; something in outreach or communications would be great although I
>>> likely will be an admin assistant first.
>>>
>>> Ashley
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: BradDunsé
>>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:37 AM
>>>
>>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] new writing assignment?
>>>
>>>   That's a good prompt, to draw emotion. I'd love
>>> to do it but I'm really crunched for time at the
>>> moment working on a career change. The best I can
>>> do to make anyone cry is for you to follow these instructions:
>>>
>>> 1. Reach in your pantry.
>>> 2. Grab an onion
>>> 3. Grab a knife.
>>> 4. You know the rest :)
>>>
>>> Sorry to chince out.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/1/2012  03:19 PM Barbara Hammel said...
>>>
>>>   How about if you write something that will make us cry or something
>>>> about
>>>> a time when you cried. Since spring is coming and most of the country
>>>> experiences lots of rain in spring, I thought maybe we could make rain
>>>> pour
>>>> forth from ourselves or remember a time when it did. If you don’t like
>>>> this idea, come up with another for us instead. Barbara Poetry is an
>>>> echo,
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