interesting experiment.

[Gregory Nowak]

We're all assuming he's using speakup since he's here. But from all of Tedy's comments in other posts, I am beginning to get the impression that he's not, since he seems to be asking for screen readers which support software tts.
Greg


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:58:09PM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote:
> Try man < emacs|less then use the speakup keys to read line by line, or
> word by word if you wish. you can bring up the next page by hitting the
> space bar.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
> > Please enlighten me.
> > I never used the Jaws cursor in the new HTML help  format under Windows.
> > Select an item in the tree view, press enter, then press F6 and it will
> > automaticly start reading that help item. It is a simple HTML file there,
> > and it works exactly as simple as Internet Explorer.
> > You don't need the Jaws cursor at all.
> > 
> > You needed the Jaws cursor only for some bad designed help files in the old
> > .hlp format.
> > Now in the new .chm format, you don't have any problems.
> > 
> > But this doesn't matter too much. Please tell me how to navigate the man
> > pages.
> > I type man mv, for example.
> > It starts to print all the help file, but maybe I want to move with a page
> > up then down, etc.
> > 
> > I know this is possible. Thanks.
> > Teddy,
> > orasnita at home.ro
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
> > 
> > 
> > SNIP
> > > > You open a window, and it explains you what you should do there.
> > > > You have to press the space bar to check some checkboxes, to press some
> > > > buttons, etc, and if you don't know something, press shift+f10 (or the
> > right
> > > > mouse button and choose "what's this?" or press F1 to view the help file
> > > > wich is much much more easier to navigate than the man pages under
> > Linux.
> > SNIP
> > 
> > A fake.
> > man pages under GNU/Linux are a lot easier to navigate than windows help
> > pages.
> > you need to route the jaws cursor to the pc and then fart around trying to
> > find what you were looking for.
> > even with the new features in jfw I seriously doubt you could navigate a
> > help file easier than a man page..
> > 
> > 
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