Re: Dictionary Manager

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:27:07 -0700

Well, maybe you shouldn't thank me prematurely.  It seems I thought this was 
something you managed with the verbosity settings, and this other person is 
aying it has something to do with HTML settings.  I'm confused, at least for 
the moment.

But you're welcome for the try, anyway.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tippy" <tippy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager


Yardbird,
  Thanks for the advice.
  Tippy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager


> Hi,
>
> Just two comments to offer.  First, I agree with Bruce that blanking out
an
> entire class of links so that Jaws can no longer see them may not be a
> practical idea.  I innocently did this while making some personalized
> verbosity settings at audible.com, the online spoken word vendor, just
> because I thought the site was too talkative, and soon regretted it.  I
> thought that all the functional links I most needed in order to place
> orders, download audio books I'd bought, etc., had disappeared, and that
the
> site was broken.  Only with the help of an equally puzzled audible tech
> support person was I able to figure out what I'd done, and undo it.
>
> Second, it may be worth emphasizing explicitly that this isn't something
you
> accomplish with the jaws dictionary manager.  It's within the purview of
the
> verbosity settings, approached either from the configurations Manager or
the
> on the menu you pull up while on a Web site with Insert V.
>
> Good luck.  Those links, and a few other types, too, can be maddening to
> listen to,so I sympathize.  But the caution Bruce is offering is not just
a
> casual word of advice, I wouldn't say.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
>
>
> One can disabled reading ofgraphical links
> and change it back again since that is what  I have to do sometimes.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
>
>
> > The problem is you're trying to get rid of the announcement of a link.
One
> > thing I suppose you could do is disable the speaking of graphical links,
> > but I don't think this would be particularly advisable.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > -- 
> > Bruce Toews
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> >
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Tippy wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the idea, but I already tried that.
> >>  Tippy
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  From: Lois Goodine
> >>  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>  Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:18 PM
> >>  Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
> >>
> >>
> >>  Try backspacing through the line to be deleted, or go to the left
margin
> >> and select it with shift plus end, and delete it.  Then you'll have to
> >> type in the word you wanted to work with.
> >>  Lois Goodine.
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