hi, ed check out the numbers on script.
it does what you describe.
hth
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From: "Ed Marquette" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:07 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Number Logic
Hello all:
I'm not sure whether this is a script idea, a request for a Window-Eyes
feature addition, or possibly some code I can send the synthesizer.
Here is the issue:
With numbers "on," Window-Eyes will read 3176 as thirty one seventy six.
That's perfect for phone numbers.
With numbers on, however, the number 443176 is read four hundred forty
three thousand one hundred seventy six.
four four three one seven 6 is much faster, and the larger the number,
the longer it takes with numbers on. When one is in a hurry, that's
incredibly annoying.
With numbers "off," however, 3176 is three one seven six. Also, January
31 is January three one, not January thirty one.
So, it would be very nice for those of us who have to deal with mixed
numbers, e.g., phone numbers and dates as well as lots of longer numbers,
like 7 digit file numbers, if there were a "pairs" option.
With strings of characters greater than 4, the synthesizer would read as
though numbers were off. For strings of numerals 4 or 2, the synthesizer
would read as though numbers were on. For strings of 3 numbers I (and
this is purely personal preference) would prefer to hear the numbers read
as though numbers were off.
Perhaps I'm being excessively pedantic, but I sense I'm not alone. I've
seen an application somewhere, can't remember where, which offered a
"pairs" option. Perhaps it was a synthesizer. I cannot imagine this being
all that difficult to program, and it would save, over time, lots of
wasted effort in listening to way more syllabus than needed while, at the
same time, reading dates, times, and phone numbers properly.
This would personally help me enormously. I suspect this will sound like
nonsense to others.
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