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 GoogleTalk: [email protected] Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster 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 >> [email protected] >> When you come to a fork in the road, >> It's time to eat. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >
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