Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:02:08 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Do screen readers stumble badly over misspelled words?
Hello: I have a couple of question for all you folks who use screen readers. First question: (1.) Do screen readers stumble badly over misspelled words? I would suppose that they would, but I have never used a screen reader myself. Maybe some screen readers have some kind of program routine designed into them to try to figure out the word that was attempted to have been written in the text. I don't know. Maybe when a screen reader encounters a spelling that is not found in its dictionary it will just read out the spelling of the word. In that case the operator could most usually figure out the word that the text was trying to say. A screen reader program could be designed for sounding out the word phonetically, but this would not work very well with the English language. In the case of English words there are thousands of exceptions to the rules of pronunciation. In the case of the Spanish language all of the words are always pronounced invariably according to the rules of pronunciation. Maybe the screen readers designed for Spanish speaking people are programmed to work by sounding out the words phonetically. This would theoretically work in the case of the Spanish language. Next question: (2.) Do screen readers have problems at understanding abbreviated and stylized spellings? Many people use abbreviated spellings and stylized spellings for words and expressions. A typical example is the phrase "whazzup?". Do screen readers stumble on the expression "whazzup?" ? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ******************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word Unsubscribe as the subject. You MUST use the same address with which you subscribed! ********************************************************
