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Current Pet Hates…
having Dragon insert spaces in front of commas trying to get Dragon to understand that I want to type the word “comma”…
The Vocabulary Optimiser
A couple of days ago, I hit another plateau with regard to accuracy. Rather than try another training/dictation session, I decided that it might be time to rerun the Acoustic Optimiser as it had been around seven days – and a fair amount of intensive usage – since I had last run it. I also [...]
More On Popups
WAI Checkpoint 10.1 states: Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear and do not change the current window without informing the user. Yes, we all know about this one. Don’t spawn a new window unless you really have to and, if you feel [...]
Popups
I’ve just come across another reason why popups should be avoided like the plague. According to the ScanSoft Dragon Knowledge Base, when using Dragon 7 with Internet Explorer , the application is unable to access popups. ScanSoft don’t offer any real solution to this problem , other than recommending using a keyboard – which is [...]
Mouseless Browsing
I’ve recently added the Mouseless Browsing extension to Firefox in an effort to make Web browsing a little easier when using Dragon. The goal of this extension is to enable browsing by using the numeric keys on the Number keypad instead of using a mouse or repeatedly using the Tab key. How does it work?
Link text should be unique
WAI Checkpoint 13.1 (Priority 2) states: Clearly identify the target of each link. It then goes on to explain: Link text should be meaningful enough to make sense when read out of context – either on its own or as part of a sequence of links. Link text should also be terse. The usual reason [...]