[stylist] ZoomText comes from AISquared RE: Does anyone use MAGICor have experience with it?

Sun Mar 25 16:03:29 UTC 2012

Thanks, Robert. I appreciate the technical information on the programs. Now 
it makes more sense to me why the techies at the rehab program wanted me to 
use JAWS and MAGIC. Instead, my caseworker ordered JAWS and ZT for me. The 
techies had told me that Magic would be the best choice because they  were 
made by the same company. Regardless, I am thankful to have the technology I 
do have.  Since we began this discussion (Thanks Eve) this  all  is more 
understandable to me. I really do appreciate this new information.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: [stylist] ZoomText comes from AISquared RE: Does anyone use MAGICor 
have experience with it?

> Hi gang- talking about the tools we use for computer access is always
> educational. Magic and JAWS are SF products and ZoomText comes from a
> company called AISquared (add .com and you have their URL. They have a 
> trial
> 60 day full version download of their product for anyone wanting to give 
> it
> a try. And as I mentioned in a previous message, you can get the version 
> of
> ZT that has voice with it, and boy, it works great!
>
> s
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 6:36 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?
>
> Hi Eve,
> Yes, it was me who had it wrong when I said that to you. Later, I realized 
> I
> had said it backwards.
>
> I had wanted Magic initially because I could see it better - I like the 
> look
> of the font better with Magic.  And, of course, I like the word, Magic!
>
> I have ZoomText and JAWS (I do not use JAWS often, just for messges that 
> are
> too long for me to deal with visually.) This is what the counselor set me 
> up
> with and at the time  I knew next to nothing about them.
>
> I do not know how to use JAWS on the internet at all.
> I have to do that visually, and it takes me awhile to do it and it can be
> exhausting. Somehow I do get it done.
>
> 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 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?
>
>
>> Lynda, your counselor was wrong. They are compatable, but it would be
>> redundent to have both. JAWS, MAGIC, and ZOOM are all Freedom Scientific
>> and perfectly compatable. Thing is if you have MAGIC you really do not
>> need
>> the others. I really find it much superior for someone who does use some
>> visuals still. I do not have any other program, but have used them in
>> past.
>> Perhaps it is a Wiccan thing, but I prefer MAGIC. :) Diolch, Eve
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Lynda Lambert
>> <llambert at zoominternet.net>wrote:
>>
>>> 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/<http://blogs.livewell
> nebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/>
>>>>>
>>>>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>>>>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>>>>
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