[nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

Have you tried JFW with the magnification that is built into Windows to see if that can work?  I honestly don't know if 
there are compatibility problems, but often the magnification build into Windows is overlooked.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:02:04 -0500 (EST), Tracy Carcione wrote:

>Yes, my husband and I are both using Jaws.
>He looked at both Mabic and Zoomtext, but they both seem like they're
>magnification, with a bit of speech.  He really needs the
>opposite--speech, with magnification sometimes.

>Maybe the manugacturers figure that people who can use magnification will
>use it until the bitter end, then switch completely to speech.  And maybe
>that's how it is; I don't know.
>I just think it would be very useful for my husband to have some
>magnification, but he needs a robust speech package, too.
>Tracy

>> you could look at zoomtext.  I think magic and zoomtext are the 2 big name
>> enlargers.
>> Are you a jaws user?
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:38 AM
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>>
>>
>> Is there any program, or programs that play well together, that would give
>> my husband speech, with large print when he needs it?  We looked at Magic,
>> but that seemed more like large print with some speech, and he needs the
>> other way around.
>>
>> I use a braille display to supplement speech.  If something's not clear,
>> or I want to see the spelling, or I need to look at a string of numbers,
>> or see a column layout, I use the braille display.  It's extremely
>> helpful.  I think my husband would find it equally helpful if he could use
>> large print in the same way, but I don't know anything about magnification
>> software.
>> Does anyone know of something that will do what I want?
>> Thanks.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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