Hi again Nancy,
For myself, I do not have different voices or different voice settings for each cursor
in JAWS. Since I am pretty good at
remembering which cursor is active at any given time, such voice changes are
unnecessary and even annoying to me. If one has
trouble remembering which cursor is active, then some type of indication might be
helpful. I would recommend setting a voice pitch
for the JAWS cursor that is higher than that of the PC cursor. It should be just high
enough to definitely notice the cursor change,
not high enough to be annoying to the student or to others in the lab. :-)
I recommend a higher voice in most cases because the JAWS cursor is being used to
obtain more detail or precision, and a higher
voice is supposed to be good to improve intelligibility.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:27:27 -0600, Nancy Feldman wrote:
>Hello Again,
>
>My students have yet another question for you. These are typically
>questions which seek answers from many individual users, so that the
>students can obtain an overview of how JAWS is used on a regular basis.
>
>Having realized that JAWS can define separate voice for the keyboard, the
>PC cursor and the JAWS cursor, students would like to know how many of you
>use this feature. They are hotly divided on whether it is necessary or
>even useful.
>
>I, for instance, do not maintain separate voices for each cursor, and have
>never found it necessary to do so. However, this is only for my personal
>use, and I encourage students to use three distinct voices.
>
>Opinions and suggestions.
>
>Nancy Feldman, Technology Instructor
>Colorado Center for the Blind
>
>
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