Hi!

Or, you could find an online listing. I know there are lots of those, and even 
emoticons that you've never even heard of. The only issue is that some 
applications write smiley as :-), and other write it as :). I realize VoiceOver 
will pronounce both of these, however, but that's just an example. That 
requires more pronunciations added, but it's a fun time waster. I suppose it 
may come in handy if someone is mad at you, but you don't know what the angry 
smiley looks like.

Regards,
Nic
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On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:

> Hi.
> Jaws does actually have quite a few emoticons and abbreviations in the 
> dictionary manager file for windows live messenger, so you could use that to 
> find out what they are and add them to VO's pronunciation dictionary if 
> you're so inclined.
> 
> Dannie
> 
> On 15 Nov 2010, at 21:41, Carolyn Haas wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone:
>> Ok, I have always  been intrigued by the idea of emoticons, and I was just 
>> blown away when I first heard Alex read the smiley emoticon.  Well, of 
>> course there are tons of these.  But, as a blind person, I never had a clue 
>> about how they were represented, nor did I care.  But, with Vo making me 
>> laugh every time I encountered a smiley, I finally broke down and had to 
>> find out how to teach him some new ones.
>> So, I found a list of emoticons, and interacted with the text to learn how 
>> differing ones are made.  Perhaps I have too much time on my hands, but I've 
>> had a great time discovering the kinds of things, (some naughty and some 
>> nice) that people can make out of simple text characters.  
>> What we did today in class was to go into VO Utilities, speech and 
>> pronunciation where you can add new ones.  Interesting, unless Alex is set 
>> to recognize them, a blind user would never know they're even there!  So, 
>> someone could send some very interesting messages and we'd be none the 
>> wiser.:(
>> 
>> I don't know if Jaws has this capability, but I've never had my pc throw 
>> smileys or other text-based representations at me in this way.  So, I 
>> thought others might appreciate this as well.
>> It would be interesting    
>> to see if others are using others besides smiley and frown.  
>> 
>> CarolynCarolyn Haas
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>> It's time to eat.
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