Sean, I don't see that the situation you quote below should be a
problem. Read jonathan's message again carefully. He said that this
feature ought to be a toggle, if at all possible.
Allan
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From: Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: More enhancements I'd like in JFW verbosity -Reply -Reply
Date: 25 March 1999 02:05
Hi Jonathan
The suggestion that you have given blow is a nice feature. But I do
not feel that a screen reader of any type should read out information
that is not visible on the screen. There is two reasons why I feel
that this is a problem.
1. If you are in a situation that you are working on your computer
with a sighted person on a project and lets say that you were going
through a group of files. All these files started with the same
characters, but the ending characters were different. The sighted
person would not be getting the same information that you are and
confusion could rain.
2. A screen reader should be presenting exactly what is on the
screen, in a fashion that a vision impaired person can understand.
Therefore if there is only part of a word visible in a list box, that
is what the screen reader should report. What the screen reader
should provide is the ability of expanding the window hich is
preventing you from reading all the information. This feature would
assist a vision impaired person with a lot of different situations.
e.g. Expanding or reducing windows.
Cheers
Sean.
>>> Jonathan Mosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25/March/1999 09:17am >>>
Another thing that HJ may like to include as a toggle is a feature
which
lets the user hear the entire contents of text that is not completely
displayed on the screen. For example, I have a lot of MP3 old time
radio
files with very long names by the time the date of the show and the
show's
title is included. JFW tells me what is on the screen, which generally
results in the filename being trunkated with dot dot dot. However,
Windoweyes and I believe some other screen readers have designed their
OSM
in such a way that they can access the entire text. Sometimes a user
may
well need to know exactly what is being displayed on the screen, hence
my
view that this could be a toggle.
Jonathan
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