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 > chaas0...@gmail.com > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
