Thanks, Steve. Hope it's helpful.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Zielinski" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Kingston" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: app for handling apostrophes; was WINDOW-EYES 7.5--A SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE


Here's a repost of Tom's earlier message on this topic.

From: "Tom Kingston" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: WINDOW-EYES 7.5--A SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:22 PM

Here's a quick fix that will let you hear whatever you want.
1. Define the characters you want spoken in the default character dictionary
(char.chr). This file will be assumed unless you've associated another
character dictionary with the program in focus. To do so, go to the
Dictionary node and expand it. Cursor down twice to Character. Then Tab down to the original and replacement fields, entering your character and what you want spoken. Tab to the Update entry button and press the spacebar or enter. You'll land in the dictionary list on the entry you've just made. Tab back up and repeat the process as needed. Then don't forget to save (Ctrl-S) when
you're finished. A shortcut to the dictionary node is to place your mouse
pointer on the character you want to define, then hit Ctrl-Shift-E. When you select the character dictionary the character your mouse was on will be in
the original entry field.
2. Under screen, punctuation, set math, miscellaneous, and textual to
dictionary only. This will leave them all available in the event you decide
to add any more characters in the future. And again, don't forget to save
these changes.
Any characters you've placed in your dictionary will be voiced.

Hth,
Tom

----- Original Message ----- From: "net bat" <[email protected]>
To: "GW INFO" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: app for handling apostrophes; was WINDOW-EYES 7.5--A SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE


if you go to the screen punctuation and turn off  miscelanious the
apostrophe  will not be spoken in words.
i don't know what other punctuation will be turned off though.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol and Roger" <[email protected]>
To: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: app for handling apostrophes; was WINDOW-EYES 7.5--A SUGGESTION
FOR THE FUTURE


I agree. There should be some type of exception to not speak things like n apostrophe t or star apostrophe ve or star apostrophe ll, for example. I would be glad to do that except for one minor deatail, I'm (oh yeah, star
apostrophe m) not a programmer/scripter ... yet.

Carol




On 3/31/2011 8:00 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
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!!
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