[nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print

[Tracy Carcione]

Vista is what my husband uses!  He likes it, enough that he is still using
a Windows 3.1 machine with dial-up.  But that machine is giving up the
ghost, and the large print is too slow for him to do much with now.  You
know, the old nose-against-the-screen trick.  So he's switched to Jaws at
work.  I guess I'll try to get him to try the Magic again.  Too bad no one
makes something like the Vista anymore; it seems to work so well.
Anyway, thanks.
Tracy


> Hi -- I'm sorry I never used wither magic or zoomtext -- when I had
> partial
> vision I used something called Vista (yes that is what it was called) from
> TSI, which is now out of business.  It ran on DOS, not windows, but was a
> great little tool.
> I believe magic and zoomtext are direct competitors of each other, and I
> don't know the benefits of either.  Zoomtext has been around longer, as I
> remember.  Good luck evaluating the options. Maybe you can get demos of
> them
> to run in 30 minute mode or something so you can try them out.  If you are
> committed to using jaws I think magic would be better as it is made by FS
> and is compatible with jaws.
> But that's my only recommendation.
> Have fun.
> --le
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Albert Yoo" <albertyoo1 at hotmail.com>
> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>
>
>
> What is the difference between Magic and zoom text? Is one better than the
> other? Albert
>
>> From: lauraeaves at yahoo.com
>> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:15:20 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>>
>> Hi again -- I always thought magic could be used with jaws, but as I
>> bought
>> jaws after I lost my ability to read large print, I never tried magic.
>> Good
>> luck finding a solution.
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Speech with supplemental large print
>>
>>
>> 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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