[blindkid] Zoom Text with Speech vs. JAWS
Jess
jessica.trask.reagan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 17:43:53 UTC 2009
Kim,
I'm no expert. But, the fact that you said that your daughter hasn't been
trained on ZoomText makes the big difference to me as to why she won't use
it. Since she had a training on JAWS she most likely prefers hearing
Eloquence speech over Via Voice or whatever Synthesizer is used in
Magnifier/Reader version of ZoomText. By the way I'm much like your daughter
I prefer using JAWS to ZoomText because all the ZoomText does in my case is
make the screen area larger. And, I'm already using a 19 inch or so flat
panel monitor. Also, Freedom Scientific also has a Magnifier Program called
MaGic as well Both JAWS and MaGic work seamlessly together.
Jessica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Cunningham" <kim at gulfimagesphoto.com>
To: "Blindkid" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [blindkid] Zoom Text with Speech vs. JAWS
Could anyone tell me about the differences (good and bad) between using Zoom
Text with speech vs. JAWS? I understand that Zoom Text has the ability to
enlarge print, etc. and JAWS is speech only. Do both work with all files or
is one better than the other. My daughter trained with JAWS over the summer
and really liked it. She found it easy to navigate. Currently she has Zoom
Text with speech on her laptop and the school district wants to know why she
won't use this program instead of JAWS since Zoom Text also allows her to
use her residual vision. Kayleigh was given Zoom Text without any training
from her TVI. What she has learned has been on her own and I'm not sure if
she just needs more training with Zoom Text or if JAWS is the way to go for
her.
Regards,
Kim Cunningham
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