I actually find that mAGic, although developed for partially sighted
people, has a very good speech component. It even allows one to navigate
web pages just as if JAWS was reading with document presentation set to
screen layout. Ok, it's not as flexible as JAWS, but it's better than
nothing. I of course will use JAWS for my daily use, but like to try
other software too, and thought MAGic was quite good actually.
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On 17/12/2009 23:58, David Griffith wrote:
I started out with Zoomtext with speech before moving onto Jaws as my sight
went..
I think even Zoomtext makers Ai squared admit that in terms of screen
reading Zoomtext is not in the same league as designated specialist
screenreaders like Jaws and has much less functionality. Zoomtext with
speech works best if you have limited vision. For example the app reader
works well only the web if you can see enough to spot the content that you
want read out on the page and click on that part of the web page. In this
sense the speech output from ZoomText is efficient and intuitive for those
who have enough sight to use screen, pointer and other enhancements enough
to use a mouse.
Where Zoomtext starts to fall down badly is if you do not have enough sight
to take advantage of these visual enhancements . So navigation on a web
page with the basic Zoomtext screen reader is pretty tortuous. This is
because you are pretty much limited to the tab and cursor keys as you are
without the recourse to navigation tools that a screen reader would provide.
. To be fair Zoomtext was never designed to be used by people who could not
take advantage of the visual and mouse pointer enhancements it affords. I do
not know it is still there but I remember reading on the AI squared site
that if you did not have enough sight to take advantage of the screen
enhancements you would be much better off with a specific screen reader like
Jaws. This was refreshing honesty and is absolutely right. Actually I think
a person without useful ability to use a mouse would be better off with NVDA
rather than Zoomtext.
Personally I found Zoomtext more intuitive and smooth than Magic and I would
unhesitatingly recommend it for someone who still wanted to be able to use a
computer with a mouse. I think it is a mistake to consider it as a
appropriate utility for those without enough sight to use a mouse. It is
simply not designed with these users in mind.
Regards
David Griffith
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Subject: [Blind-Computing] zoom text
Hi,
I was wondering has anyone used zoom text with speech output?
If so what is your experience like? Preferibly for those who are totally
blind. I know, it's a program for visually impaired and not blind but with
the speech output, I can see how the program would be useable.
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