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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: screen reader(s)
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Date: 10 Jan 91 17:58:48 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 IO> hey, fellas what kind of screen readers aroe you using? is it ralph the 
 IO> reader?, read.com?, type?, m' more?, or what? i use read.com. i have a 
 IO> problem with long docum"ents beacuse i cannot turn it off and return. i 
 IO> guess you cold use list.com, look.com, and there must be others. any 
 IO> suggestions? i don''t l ike ralph the reader. that'sthe onlyone i don'tseem 
 IO> to like. i wonder ifvocal eyes or jaws isgoodfor braille reading? or 
 IO> flipper? i'll be interested in opinions. thanks.

Well, ralph and read, are not exactly screen readers like jaws,
vocal eyes, and flipper.  Those last programs are speech programs,
and ralph and the like are text readers.  I know what you are
saying about those programs.  I like to use jaws along with
wordperfect, and jaws' continuous read program which will allow you
to read to the end of the doccument, or stop it at any time just by
pressing the control key.  I think that vocal eyes has the same
feature, but I do not know about flipper.

There is a program that vos use to include with it's program called
htype which would stop at the end of each screen.  Also it would
let you move forward to any screen, and it had a search feaature.

You also could use the more command which would allow you to stop
at the end of each screen  and review any part of the screen you
wished.  I think that you can also do this with ralph, if you don't
use the continuous read command.  That is the one thing that I told
Dave that I did not like about ralph, and that was if you go into
the continuous command, you had to read till you finished the
doccument.

               Walter 

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