[stylist] NEWS FlashRE: Screen Readers and Word or Open Office- !

Robert Leslie Newman newmanrl at cox.net
Mon Mar 5 14:39:04 UTC 2012 

Hey you all- If you have JAWS as your screen reader, then you have a nifty word processor that comes free with it! It is called FSEdit and you find it in the JAWS menu that is down in the program menu. It has a spell checker and most features needed by the average writer. Like check it out! You don't need to use that other silly stuff like open office!


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brenda
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:12 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Screen Readers and Word or Open Office was/

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, asking a shadow to dance. -- 
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