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Thanks and Regards, Vinod Benjamin, -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wael Sent: Sunday, 14 December, 2008 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] paper presentation on JAWS-Help needed hi, here are some helpful tips, and for more information, feel free to contact me at: [email protected] 1. what is jaws? Jaws is a commercial screen reader to read the on-screen information outloud for the sake of the blind computer users as well as converting the on-screen information into readable braille code using a refreshable braille display. Jaws works for the windows operating system as well as the old DOS operating system made by microsoft inc. with all their releases including windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, xp, and vista. the word jaws in the English language is the plural of jaw, to reflect its relevance to articulation, however, it is the abbreviation of: Job Access Wtih Speech, to reflect the deeper thought behind manufacturering such type of software to enable the blind community access their jobs smoothly using their computers with no problems related to their sightless eyes while a computer is operated mainly using a screen monitor. 2. . how it is helpful for the VI's? Jaws is helpful for the VI's as long as they are able to make benefit of using their computers, it could deal with all microsoft compatible and accessible software applications as well as the capabilities to create custom scripts to make the inaccessible software aplications easy to use programs and blind friendly. 3. How does it convert text to voice, some technical background? Jaws is as any other screen reader is built on two major classes,mainly, a speech synthesizer and a screen reading software; and here is how it works: a software or hardware speech synthesizer aims at producing synthetic voice simulating human natural sounding voice. Jaws includes the Eloquence software synthesizer works as the default speech synthesizer used. Eloquence could read around 10 major language including American and British English, French, german, etc. The Eloquence software synthesizer is not as natural as should be, but still it is considered the most intelligible software synthesizer used by the blind all over the world either being a part of the jaws screen reader, or any other computer or mobile screen readers. the Jaws screen reading software, which determines and controls the behaviour of eloquence; for example, reading a certain sets of punctuations and ignoring others, reading numbers in digits mode or in pairs or in total numbers, recognizing the alt tags for web graphics and much more. thus, jaws is a combination of a default software speech synthesizer and a screen reading software to read outloud all possible on-screen information as well as informational messages related to progress bars, graphical shapes and icons, in addition to the powerful capabilities to be application specific customizable. Many other features are included in jaws to make it one of the most popular screen readers such as: jaws scripting language, jaws frame viewer, braille viewer, window class re-assign, jaws configuration manager, keyboard manager, speech and braille manager, jaws tandem, and much more. 4. what are the application it supports? In general terms, Jaws supports all keyboard accessible software applications, though it has its local and international scripting zone which supports more popular inaccessible applications, some of the jaws supported applications include: Adobe Acrobat and Reader America Online Anytime Deluxe AOL Instant Messenger AudibleManager CakeWalk Pro Audio Corel Presentations Eudora Family Tree Maker Formatta Filler Free Agent Goldmine Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia GroupWise HJ Pad Java Support Juno Lotus Notes MAGic screen magnifier MicroPlanet Gravity Microsoft Applications including access, chat, excel, frontPage, frontPage express, internet explorer, net meeting, outlook, outlook express, powerPoint, project, visual studio.net, windows live messenger, windows media player, word. Mozilla Firefox Netscape Omni Page Pro Quattro Pro Quicken QuickVerse Random House Webster's Unabridged dictionary RealPlayer SoundForge SPSS TaxACT Textbridge Pro Theophilos Bible Program Visual Basic Webster's New World Dictionary Winamp Windows Calculator Windows Clipboard vs Office Clipboard Windows Help WinFax Pro WinZip WordPerfect Yahoo! Messenger Added are some other software applications that has third party aproved or popular jaws scripts, and so jaws friendly such as: AVG antivirus dartpro FTP explorer gold wave google talk kaspersky anti virus norton internet security skype word web and word web professional some other jaws friendly and accessible programs that are already accessible without scripts for jaws include: Avast antivirus jet audio Mcafee nero burning rom networx nod32 notepad power archiver power quest partition magic win rar win zip wordpad finally, some other small software applications that are mainly built using the jaws scripting compiler which are considered enhanced jaws scripts that have their specific ends include: jDays jTools jTunes typeability note: the listed software applications are not all the jaws friendly programs, they are just various software samples that jaws is able to deal with ifficiently. 5. what are the advantages and disadvantages of jaws? some of the Jaws advantages may be, and not limited to: .setting up the international standards in using speech and braille with keyboard for the sake of the blind computer users, programmers, web developpers, etc. .providing access to all expected software applications under windows .easy to use interface and terminology. .flexibility to detect third party installed speech engines in non-jaws-supported languages. .reasonable sollution in using the windows mouse arrow on screen to locate unreachable items with the keyboard, using the so-called jaws and invisible cursors. .reasonable sollution in virtualizing on-screen static content to be keyboard readable using a virtual viewer to work with static screen text such as internet pages, .pdf files, and .chm files. .the portable version of jaws that may help the blind access foreign computers outside using a thumb drive or a flash memory. .and much more. Though, some of the jaws disadvantages may include, but not limited to: .being a commercial screen reader, not all blind users could afford buying, and upgrading it over their machines due to its critical price. .necessity to run with administrative privelages to install jaws on any machine. .using a video intercept driver which requires a proper stable VGA driver to be installed before hand so that jaws could work properly. .technical problems like installation of the microsoft visual C++ redistributable package resulting machine hanging when not addressed properly or when a non microsoft visual C++ java applications conflicts it. .included older jaws scripts for earlier versions of the mentioned supported programs such as the old scripts for SPSS 9.0, though the program is now in its version 15 or higher. .and much more. 6. Some screen shorts of the jaws window and some vedio how jaws speaks would be fine? Feel free to visit the official website of the jaws manufacturer at: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ where you will find more than you expect about jaws and other sollutions for the blind from Freedom Scientific. Note: other windows screen readers may include free open source products such as: NVDA, for more information feel free to visit: http://www.NVDA-project.org/ Best Regards. Wael Zakareya http://blindPlus.blogspot.com skype: m0100649426 msn: [email protected] google: [email protected] mobile: 0100649426 --- On Sat, 12/6/08, vinod benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > From: vinod benjamin <[email protected]> > Subject: [AI] paper presentation on JAWS-Help needed > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 12:17 PM > Dear Friends, > > > > > > Greetings for the day! > > > > Friend of mine would like to present a paper on jaws' > to the seeing > population, so need your suggestions interns of the below > mentioned points, > I am trying to get through but I am not satisfied with the > surch results, so > please help me. > > > > 1. what is jaws, > 2. . how it is helpful for the VIPs > > 3. How does it convert text to voice, some technical > background > > 4. what are the application it supports > > 5. what are the advantages and disadvantages of jaws > > 6. Some screen shorts of the jaws window and some vedio how > jaws speaks > would be fine > > > > > > Your help is greatly appreciated, eagerly weighting for > your reply. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Vinod Benjamin, > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] with the subject > unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any > other changes, please visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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