Hello Jyotsna, Most of the smileys and emoticons are pretty much accessible in applications like skype. But fail in applications like word, email clients like outlook express and webmail. Even if you typed the right symbols to make a smiley face like for example the ones listed below in this email, you will notice that JAWS just does not read it exactly as how it is or not as an emoticon or smiley:
Use reading keys to get the symbols after the first colon from the description of the smiley. For smile: :) For laugh: :D For cool: 8-) For sad: :( I suggest that if you are writing to another screen reader user you should use the words like sad, smile, laugh etc. to express the emoticons or smileys. But for a sighted person use the symbols illustrated above. You can get more random smileys and emoticons to use in your communication from the site: http://www.netlingo.com/smileys.php Other list members are to help sight more instances of using them in their communication and kindly share on this thread to get a better understanding of the same. Mujtaba Merchant Bangalore, India Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
