[misc.handicap] HTYPE

Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (01/15/91)

Index Number: 12916

Grant.Downey@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (01/15/91)

Index Number: 12963

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

When I was teaching one of my students Vert Plus for the Texas
Comision, the people at the Career Development Unit, the people
responsible for deciding what equipment clients will get,
informed me when I recommended Jaws or Vocal-Eyes instead of
Vert that Jaws especially was way above the needs of a client
who was just working on Word Perfect.  I couldn't believe it. 
here programs come along that make Word Perfect the easiest I've
ever seen to use and the Comision says the program is to much
for the client's needs.  Someone in this echo made a comment
about Vert Plus as the program written the way screenreaders
were written several years ago and boy is that ture.  I never
really got it working with WP as well as Jaws or Vocal-Eyes.  It
would never automatically speek the status line even.  However I
have gotten the word that the Comision is still going to buy
that for their clients.  Oh boy!

 

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Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (01/15/91)

Index Number: 12916

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 GD> I stil like Htype the best and it seems to work well with any speech 
 GD> package that I put it with. Grant

Yep, it sure does.  When jaws first came out, it did not.  When you
would go in the jaws cursor, the cursor keys did not work right.  I
told Ted about it, and had to send him a copy to checkit out with,
and he fixed it.  He said when he fixed that bug it corrected a
problem for some other programs they had a problem with.

               Walter 

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