In general I agree with Ron, however, I will point out that if the rule for
silence is created carefully, then the examples he sites would not occur.
If the silence rule was set to silence for "http://www" then it would not be
silent if "ftp:" or "https:" or any other slightly different string went by.
These rules are very exact.
Bill
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Making JAWS more barable?
Ron
Let me share a perspective with you.
To me, other than when a screen reader gets locked up within a speech loop
repeating the same thing over and over and over, there really isn't too much
verbage.
No, I don't keep my screen reader, WE5.5, to always speak everything; but,
on the other hand, I don't attempt to intentionally suppress info that could
be potentially useful.
Why is this important: if all is flowing well, then it may not be.
But if for example you suppress http://www all the time, where are you when
the url isn't http://www (maybe there is no www, or perhaps the http is
https).
I do a lot of trouble shooting on lists such as Blindtech, and very often
the problem is that either folks plain out don't know what they're doing or
they don't realize what is happening on the screen either because they don't
know how to get the needed info from the screen or sometimes when the screen
reader doesn't give it to them.
So how do I not get bogged down having to listen to everything.
Well, first of all, I don't listen to everything.
My fingers are continually active on the keyboard silencing lines when
needed, quickly moving from line to line when needed, using screen reader
search capabilities, and the like.
My point is this: I rather have my screen reader speak too much rather than
too little.
When it speaks too much, I can silence it.
When it speaks too little, I may not realize that I am missing something
that I ought really to know.
Just a perspective, nothing more.
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