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.
