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From: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Word Perfect
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Date: 11 Aug 90 03:02:49 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 BK> Hey, speaking of wordperf, how did you set the window so it 
 BK> would talk to you? That's the one thing I noticed, it doesn't 
 BK> do much talking to me. However, the arrow keys do just fine, 

Bill,
     Yeah, that is how most word processors behave with speech, as they
typically write direct to the screen.
     Ok, you're using Flipper, right?  Well, you have 2 fairly easy
options available to you if you want the prompts to talk.  First of all,
and I'm sure you will find this to be too much chatter once you are
comfortable with Word Perfect, you can cause it to write through the
bios by entering it with the command WP/NF rather than just the WP.  You
will then either have to silence the status line with a quiet window, or
toggle off "automatic output" with a F-1 in screen review whenever you
start to type your document.
     A simplier, but less talky method, is to turn on "extended
automatic output" in Flipper with an alt F-1 in screen review.  This
will cause most of the prompts, such as "exit WP ? Y/N" to be spoken
without interfering in any other way.  It won't speak the entire help
screens or the entire menu when one is presented, but it will read the
basic prompts automatically.
     Good luck,
                                                        Willie
 

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