[jawsscripts] Re: medical Dictionary

Why don't you try Stedman's Medical Dictionary, you may need to buy it 
though, but it is very much accessible. in fact most products from 
stedmans are accessible.
Hope this helps, Jitendra.
Sean Randall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just downloaded this and thought I'd give a few initial impressions.  If
> anyone else is familiar with this product please chime in.
>
> It's a quite straightforward interface, visually speaking. An edit input
> control to narrow your search, a listbox of results, and then the
> "definition panel" which shows the actual data of interest.
>
> As you might have surmised its this panel that causes us the problems...
>
> It's a custom type of rich edit window, as far as  I can determine.  MSAA
> has nothing on it, and JAWS get text functions are happy to return truncated
> data if the window isn't maximised or there's too much to fit on a screen.
>
> This isn't an encyclopaedia so most definitions are brief, and as the data
> set we have to work with is so large it's difficult to analyse everything
> that will be presented to a user.  The website claimed that the dictionary
> handles tables, links, and other formatting - this being the case I see no
> way for  jaws to get to the data, other than with the screen scraping
> approach.
>
> I've yet to find a dictionary entry that's so long it scrolls off the screen
> with the window maximised.  The "back" button was a strange graphical
> symbol, so I can only assume that the scrolling icons aren't standard
> either. 
>
> I can't find any way of focusing words or lines within this text - there's
> no "cursor" for navigating definitions.  I'm leaning toward virtualising the
> definition  text, but I need to find out exactly what sort of tabular,
> graphical, or linked data is included so I can figure out how to handle
> that.  Furthermore, you can right-click certain words in a definition to get
> a definition of that word - but again, I can see no visual indication of
> which words are definable and which aren't.
>
> Does anybody have any recommendations?  The virtual viewer is quite
> atrocious for handling complicated data.  On the other hand, this is a quick
> reference tool; surely the primary concern is to find a definition, read it,
> and move on?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Sean.
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