Hi Carolyn, Wes, Brett, and Others, I suspect the reason that you can't set up the VO pronunciation editor to speak emoticons for ":D" (colon d form big smile) and "<3" (less 3) is that you could get potential confusion in situations where you are normally typing with colons or in mathematical expressions. Can you imagine a passage where someone is using capital letters as a shortcut or code to refer to the names individuals (as sometimes occurs in books, or where one is reading paragraphs of a diary referring to people by their initials), and because there is no space between the colon and the "d" someone all of a sudden hears "laughing face" or "big smile"? That would really be confusing! Or, for example, someone who is trying to read a math equation comes to the part where an algebraic expression is less than 3, and hears "love" or "heart" in the middle?
I'd imagine that the annoyance value of having VoiceOver substitute emoticons under these circumstances would be considerable. Just think of having to explain to your math teacher that you couldn't do your math homework because you've set up your screen reader to pronounce "<3" correctly for emoticons on Facebook. HTH. Cheers, Esther > > Wes Smith wrote: > >> No, I was able to read each character, and I entered it right. There is no >> other :D symbol or anything. The only thing I can think of, is that it's >> some sort of weird bug. I can't do <3 for love or heart either. I emailed >> the Apple people, told them my situation, asked them what was going on. It >> just bugs the heck outta me when I'm trying to read a Facebook post, and >> someone's used emoticons....which is quite frequent with my friends and I. >> Maybe someone else has a suggestion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
