[stylist] Zoom Text comes from AISquared RE: Does anyone use MAGIC or have experience with it?

Mon Mar 26 19:00:42 UTC 2012

Robert and all,
I might as well join in on beating a dead horse.
When I went to the Tucson Center for Blind Veterans, I was given lessons in
JAWS and Zoomtext. They recommended this highly and did not teach Magic. 
When I returned to Mesa, and was assigned a home teacher, she recommended I
get Magic instead. In fact, Voc Rehab ordered it for me, and she confirmed
that it was made by Freedom Scientific and thus was in all ways compatible.
A year or so ago, when I got my update of JAWS, Magic was included with it.
As to a preference, with either I have to make the magnification so great
that I see only a tiny fraction of the material. My mind does not process
it. It can be useful for checking one character, however, though installed,
I choose to do without.
If the transition back and forth was a bit smoother with the voice and other
features, and habitual use, it might be valuable. 
Jackie

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:31 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
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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