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

[David Andrews]

Brenda, you are correct, the abilities with speech in MAGic and 
Zoomtext are designed for speech re-enforcement, reading long 
passages of text etc.  They aren't intended to be full-featured 
screen readers, after all their primary mission is to enlarge the screen.

It is like if you buy a car and want to haul some luggage, it does 
have a trunk, but is primarily intended to haul 
passengers.  Conversely if you want to haul cargo, you buy a truck, 
it is designed for that, not for trans porting people.

Dave

At 11:30 AM 3/24/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Eve
>I am sorry I used a word you didn't like when saying Magic is a 
>waterdown version of Jaws.  I was told this by someone who sold the 
>product and I believe words to that effect from someone at Freedom 
>Scientific.  I was told the screen readers in Magic and Zoomtext are 
>not the full version of the screen readers.
>Brenda
>
>On 3/24/2012 12:38 AM, Eve Sanchez wrote:
>>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