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

Sat Mar 24 14:43:25 UTC 2012

Robert after  reading this you refreshed my memory. I had it backwards.
I had asked for Magic because I liked it better when I used it at the rehab 
center. The tech people there had told me it worked best with JAWS and that 
it was made to go with it - NOW that I think about it again after over four 
years. And, my counselor gave me ZoomText instead and said it worked just 
fine with JAWS...and so that it what I ended up with and learned to use on 
my own.  Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have 
experiencewith it?


> 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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