RE: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:59:19 -0400
Word is my program of choice, but what about HJPad?  If you discount the
fact that it was written as a training program, it compares favorably
to, let's say, the word processing module in Microsoft Works for
everyday use-no indexing or outlining features, no thesaurus, but a
spell checker.  Oh, there are no footnotes either, which would probably
nix any kind of scholarly use.

 

Ted

 

 

From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Marquette, Ed
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:28 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

 

OK.

You have at least three options, all of which are better than having to
mess with Notepad.

 

First, there are a number of third party utilities that "clean up"
scanned documents.  We have one at work, not for blind people, but for
general office use.  It gets rid of the garbage,and it does a fantastic
job.  It even preserves the formatting should that be important, which
probably isn't, given that you are willing to put up with Notepad.

 

Second, if you are happy with just getting the text into Notepad (pure
text) format, From within Word, just highlight all your text with
control plus A.

Then copy it into the buffer with control plus c.  Then delete
everything out.

Next, depending on what flavor of Word you are using, go to edit, paste
special, unformatted Unicode text.

The whole operation should take less than 5 seconds, and you'll have the
equivalent of a pure text document, except it is in a real word
processor.

 

Third, if you are doing the scanning, set the scanner (I use OmniPage)
to scan to text only.

 

You shouldn't be forced to use Notepad for anything -- unless it is just
a quick note (and then it isn't all that good) or you are writing
programs (and there are much better alternatives there too).

 

 

         

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        From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Brandon Keith
        Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:07 PM
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: Re: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

        I have always used word until a little while ago when I started
dealing with scanned material with all kinds of crazy tables and objects
being placed into columns. When I place all that into Notepad it all
goes away. So because I'm having to read everything in Notepad I don't
have all the spellchecker to make sure a word is spelled right and I
don't have a thesaurus to check words on the spot. So I'm wondering if
there is any way to beef up Notepad so I can stop using word with all
the messed up formatting problems?

        Thanks,

         

        Brandon Keith

         

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        From: Allison Mervis <mailto:allisonfm@xxxxxxxxx>  

        Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 PM

        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

        Subject: RE: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

         

        I don't know who told you that Microsoft Word doesn't work well
with Jaws, but unless you're using a really old version of Jaws with a
newer version of Word, you've been misled. Word is extremely accessible
with Jaws, and has been for many years.

        Allison

         

        http://www.allisonmervis.com/

         

        From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Brandon Keith
        Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:00 PM
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?

         

        Hello, 

        I was told and found that Notepad works way better with Jaws
than Word does.

        But I'm writing papers and whatnot in Notepad, but there is no
thesaurus and I don't believe any spellchecker.

        Is there any way to beef up Notepad? Or are there any other text
editors that have the features of word?

        Thank you,

         

        Brandon Keith

         

        Check out
        MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brandonkeithcom
        Also add me on facebook! 
        brandonkeith

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