Re: FORWARDED MAIL FROM RAVEN

From: greglo@microsoft.com
Date: Tue Apr 12 1994 - 11:55:31 PDT


Raven wrote: "This discussion moves me to wonder, though, why we do not
seem to be concerned about the seeming lack of ability of current
screen-reading software/hardware for the Windows environment to present to
the blind user an accurate picture of what the sighted viewer actually
sees on the screen."

I know that at least some of the screen review packages for Windows do
allow you to query the indentation, font, and style of each line of text.
While this is somewhat laborious for determining overall patterns, it does
give access to the information when the reader feels it is necessary and
omits it when they don't want to be annoyed with extraneous information.

I agree that it would be beneficial to have even more "smarts" in the
software to automatically detect changes in indentation and formatting and
give the user a subtle audible cue that a change occurred.

It is also possible in some word processors such as Microsoft Word to have
every paragraph prefixed with the name of the paragraph style assigned to
it. These would normally be things like "Heading 1", "Heading 2",
"Bullet", "Indented Paragraph", and so forth--whatever the document
designer chose.

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