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

Sun Mar 25 03:18:23 UTC 2012

As I said; Yes, I am sure it is my computer. It does these things
regularly. If I went back into original email I would not be surprised if
it works just fine now. That is the norm for this peice of crap HP. Thanks,
Eve

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Robert Leslie Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>wrote:

> 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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