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From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1@uic.edu>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for Speakup
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Even though I don't use pine, this way of reading messages in it suggests the usefullness of a macro system in speakup.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:29:37PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 
> > For example while in pine it reads the prier email subject and then the
> > current one. I'd much rather see that quark be fixed rather than search
> 
> There's an easy way around this for most folks.
> 
> When in the Pine index of messages screen, use your thumb on the down 
> arrow key. Use your middle finger on the 8 key on the numeric keypad. 
> 
> Now, press down arrow with your thumb to move to the next message, but 
> don't wait for speakup to talk. Instead, just press 8 on the numeric to 
> cause it to read the current line.
> 
> If I couldn't do this I'd go crazy with the hundreds of messages I plow 
> through weekly.
> 
> Of course, there are folks with disabilities (in addition to blindness) 
> who can't do this.
> 
> 
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