You mention jaws scripts. Are there window-eyes set files too? Or does it work fine without them. Greg On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:12:56PM -0400, Rich Caloggero wrote: > Janina wrote: > > > Another option would be a better screen reader for telnet and a > > > better telnet client. That would mean a good DOS screen reader > > > like asap or Vocal-Eyes, assuming he can actually run DOS on that > > > Windows machine. Neither of those is very cheap, though, and > > I use a free windows terminal emulator called teraterm. I redefine the jaws > function sayNonHighlightedText to read everything appearing on the screen, > as long as its not a menu or in a dialog box (about 7 lines of code. Go to > http://barajas.mit.edu/teraterm/ to get the package. Just unzip it into a > directory somewhere and click on ttermpro.exe for the standard version or > ttssh.exe for the ssh version. Both report the application name is > ttermpro.exe, so the jaws scripts will work regardless. > The jaws scripts are in ttermpro.zip. Download this file, extract to your > jaws scripts directory, and then either press enter on this script filename > from within windows explorer or press insert+f2 and choose script manager > and open the file from there. Once you have the file, press control+s to > save and compile it. Now you should be able to run teraterm and jaws should > speak correctly. > > The real problem is text editing. I use ex (vi without the full-screen > stuff - basically ed ), but only crazy people like me probably want to go > this way. I need to try a full screen editor and make it work via a terminal > emulator. VI might be a good choice, but the key bindings only make sense if > you know about ed. What's the other choices for full screen editing which > are *not* emacs? I've heard of something called vim (is this correct)? > There's pico and probably others. I need to try and make this work for > myself too, because using ex is nice in some ways, but its more typing than > I really want to do with my RSI the way it is. > > I can help more with this if needed. Its not the greatest solution, but it > works very well for me. The terminal emulator is very very stable. Its > worked on every version of windows I've tried it on with the same results. > > Hope this helps someone -- Teddy especially. Please don't hesitate to ask me > for more help. I will be unavailable for the next week or so, but after the > 28th, I'll be able to answer e-mail again. > > Rich Caloggero > MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info and Computing > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
