[stylist] more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?

Sat Mar 24 14:05:25 UTC 2012

EVE and Lynda and others:
(As one work-around I sent Eve an email with "S&S" in the body of the
message)

Otherwise: 
Magic is a sister program to JAWS, they are created by the same software
company, Freedom Scientific; they do work perfectly together. Magic does
have a stripped down version of JAWS in it that can be turned on or off.
First question I would have is- does the voice work in other
windows/programs during the time that the "S&S" document is up? Or, is the
voice not working anywhere?

(Tell me, what word processor are you trying to use? And does Magic work
when you are pulling up other documents?)

A second question is- (and this one would be totally urrevalant, if the
voice is working elsewhere And Eve, I don't want to insult your
intelligence, you may know this keystroke) Eve do you know the keystroke to
turn the voice on- to make sure that it is?

There again, with all of the above said, I'm thinking it is probably a
computer problem that is at the bottom of all these headaches that Eve is
experiencing. 

(One possible work around is- if this is a problem because your computer is
trying to use Word  or whatever your word processor is, we could send you a
text document and once you get the email, say the attachment  somewhere
where you can find it, then open Notepad which is a text reader and maybe
this combo will work (that Magic's voice will not get clobbered). (Does Magi
also give you freedom cientific's FSEdit? I mentioned this one before, JAWS
another FS product has it in the program menu of JAWS to be used by the JAWS
program owner [a good word processor].)

So eve if you want to try the text option, tell me direct and I'll convert
it and send it to your email address.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:17 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?

Eve,
When I was at the rehab center in Pittsburgh, I had chosen Magic as the
program I wanted. Then, later my counselor did not get it for me, but
instead they got me ZoomText. They said that Magic did not work well with
JAWS. Maybe that is the problem?
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve Sanchez" <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?

> Seriously Bridget, it is likely my computer. It wasn't even built in 
> this century and is full of viruses. It always does strange things and 
> then later goes back to normal. Like last night I could not use any 
> arrrow keys.
> This morning I was unable to enter any comments on Facebook. I would 
> push ENTER and it would open a link that had nothing to do with where I
was.
> Often people here have seen my CAPS lock on when it is never pushed. 
> It is crap, but it is all I have. And I would never say that MAGIC is 
> a watered down version of JAWS. If anything I would say it is the other
way around.
> Eve
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bridgit Pollpeter
> <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear Stylist,
>>
>> I have a Slate & Style reader who is having problems with MAGIC 
>> reading the current Slate & Style issue with the screen-reading 
>> portion of the software. From what I understand, the document opens, 
>> but it does not read any of the text. Does anyone know what the issue 
>> could be, or have suggestions of things to try to make it work? I 
>> only have experience with JAWS, but from what I've always been told, 
>> a MS Word doc shouldn't be a problem for most screenreaders. I'd 
>> appreciate any suggestions here.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>> Read my blog at:
>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>
>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>
>>
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