I go back to the early days of computers and voice synthesizers and I
agree, having something not spoken automatically does tend to slow
you down a little as you have to spend a little more time reviewing
what you imagine to have taken place but again, its not essentual. I
used Outspoken on a Mac with Microsoft Word for example and it was
the done thing to be able to browse the screen affectively to find
out what was going on at any one time, you'd be prompted allot of the
time that the screen had changed so then it was up to the user to
find out what had changed and where. If you think this is bad then I
go back further to the mid 70s to Cp/M machines I used which had no
speech feedback whatsoever, so you wrote or did you had to do and
then reviewed what you'd done using specific commands to read by
voice from the keyboard, that's about as manual as you can get and
yes, it took time but I actually think that in many ways, the end
product was better because you were forced to review your work thus
you didn't really want to make any mistakes to save yourself time.
On 08/06/2006, at 10:04 AM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
hmmmm, I've used many types of adaptive technologies even going back
to the original outspoken fcor the mac and some odd ones like vert
plus for my dos box 386. and I'm telling you, being that something is
not read to me automatically, does slow me down, believe me, I would
like the convenients, but its not vital.
On Jun 7, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
We gvet *iffy* because having wstuff read to us automatically, at
least for me, makes me more productive.
Jane
On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Gabriel Vega wrote:
for alot of those windows l*users* it would seem that they get
kind of iffy, of nothing gets read to them automatically. now, its
kind of a second nature to review the last couple of lines when
using terminal and editing is a breeze with nano.
On Jun 6, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I suppose I should have explained that there are plenty of
commands you can run without installing anything further; because
I have run linux and wanted to install more I skipped that basic
fact. Having already been familiar with linux I had some ideas
what I could run with the terminal so I haven't specifically done
reading on the Mac's Unix system. Maybe somebody onlist can point
you to some documentation. a lot of people don't know anything
about the underlying Unix system when they start with the Mac; in
fact, I think quite a few never do anything with it; glad you've
discovered it. The way voiceover works with terminal isn't
optimal but now that I'm used to it, it isn't usually a hindrance.
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