Hi Olusegun , I agree about how awkward the apostrophe is; there are times when programming I wish to hear it, but not when it's in it's usual place in a word. I think this is a great opportunity for a scripter to handle this issue somehow. maybe use the character dictionary to stop the apostrophe from being said, and then processing the text before it's spoken to see if the apostrophe looks out of place, and if so, then substitute the word "apostrophe" for it in the text?
Something along these lines anyway should let us hear it when it's out of place, and not hear it when it's not. hope someone feels like taking this on, and maybe others will offer suggestions as to how this might work? Chip -----Original Message----- From: Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WINDOW-EYES 7.5--A SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE Hi Everyone: I did receive the CD in the mail this past week-end and I installed at work about two hours ago. Right now, I'm still putting it through its paces. In a few days, I should, if plans do not go awry, have a better report. During the quick setup selection, I noticed that such items as the Dollar sign, aprostrophe, ETC. were placed in the Miscellaneous selection checkbox. In my opinion, I think that currency and percent signs should be separate check boxes. I put forward this suggestion because the way Window-Eyes 7.5 reports apostrophes when reading a document leaves much to be desired. For example, "you'll" is read as "you(apostrophe) l l." This can make the reading of documents a bit hard to follow and perhaps even understand. The reading of apostrophes, me thinks, should be moved to punctuation selection checkbox. When I read a document, I don't want the apostrophes, dashes, parentheses and such read. However, I'd like to see $1, $100, and or 10%, 25% read. This is essential for some of us who run retail operations and want to be sure that the information being read by the screen reader makes sense. I am hoping that my suggestion does make a modicum of sense and that GW Micro staff will take a hard look at the proposal and hopefully implement it by either releasing a patch later, or in the next release of the program. Many thanks!! If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
