[blindkid] chatting and JAWS

[Heather]

MSN was very popular about five years ago, but I switched to AIM, and most 
blind people seem to prefer one of those two options.  Twitter might also be 
an option a bit further down the road.  My Space and Face Book are 
accessible with JFW, very much so, all of the blind people I know are on one 
or both, but I don't know about the chat component.  I would reccomend that 
she use the links list, insert F 7, after you figure out which links are 
near what she wants.  For instance, when I shop on one of my favorite sites, 
that has no heddings on it, I find the product descriptions by moving to the 
Affiliate Log In link, because I figured out that that is the last link 
above the text.  On a blogging site I love, I find the profile settings 
info, which is text, with no link, on the main page, by searching for the 
"Change The World One Step at a Time" link, which is right before that info. 
If you know the name of the link you want, then first letter navigation in 
the links list should work, if it is something in text, use the control F 
screen find command.  Just don't get her mixed up with things like The Zone. 
It is an online blind community, and it is all about two things, technology 
and sex.  Everyone, and I do mean everyone on there is looking for syber 
sex, phone sex, clips from other users of a sexual nature, etc.  They have 
discussions for other things, but you have to pass all of the crazies to get 
there, and it is very limiting.  I am encouraged to hear that she wants to 
chat online to her sighted peers.  Foster that, and she'll be good to go. 
She could get a live journal possibly, I don't know about age requirements, 
but you could moniter it pretty easily.  I hope this helps.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:25 AM
Subject: [blindkid] chatting and JAWS


> Our Daughter, Kendra has a great interest in on-line chatting. She's a 
> bit young for that (first grade) but I have no problem with the  concept 
> of supervised chatting with select friends and family. She  hears about it 
> all the time, she should learn about it (in a safe way).
>
> The problem is that all the e-chatting we do in our house is pretty  much 
> on facebook. I have heard of facebook issues for JAWS users but  never 
> tried to explore it before. I tried last night. What a mess.  JAWS was 
> just spewing talk nonstop about all sorts of links-- hundreds  of links 
> and seemingly randomly jumping from one thing to the next--  there seems 
> no way to get JAWS into the chat window or at least to  stay there-- I did 
> hear it read a little bit of a chat dialogue once  but it jumped somewhere 
> else after only a few words were read.
>
> So I have two main questions-- 1) Is there a usable facebook solution 
> that will let the chat work reasonably well with chatting, and 2) what 
> other sorts of internet chat options seem to work better with JAWS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
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