[stylist] Magic and Zoomtext, both can talk RE: more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have experiencewith it?

Sat Mar 24 17:02:18 UTC 2012

Lynda

Do you have the version of zoomtext that has speech? Zoomtext's choices of
voices is a good one; they have a much better sounding voice than jaws does.

Lynda if you are not using the voice feature, then hey lady you are  not
using the full power of Zoomtext! (you can turn on and off where it is that
you want it to read too you. Boy, I've seen some eye ball it to where they
want to be, then and only then turn on the doc reader and set back and let
the program do the work! 

So just curious.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] more about Does anyone use MAGIC or have
experiencewith it?

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>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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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