[blindkid] Chromebooks
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sun Mar 2 17:26:40 UTC 2014
Google has an extension to Chrome called Chromevox which gives blind
people some access. I know they recruited people and did a bunch of
testing around a year ago. I don't remember much about results. If
you did some searches I would think you could come up with some data,
and you could also ask on some of our more technical lists like nfbcs
and gui-talk.
As I recall, there is some access but it is far from perfect. A Mac
or Windows would be better.
at least at this time.
Dave
At 08:46 PM 3/1/2014, you wrote:
>A middle school we have been researcing for our daughter is looking
>at outfitting all the students with Google Chromebooks. She would
>likely be the only blind student potentially using these. I'm very
>curious to know how likely we are to have problems with such a plan,
>though I assume we might be able to access the same information with
>a PC or Mac Laptop.
>
>I recall there were some NFB issues addressed relating to
>Chromebooks a while back. From what I read, they do have some
>accessibility features, but I don't have any current access to
>explore any of these machines directly.
>
>Has anyone explored these accessibility features, and can anyone
>compare them to JAWS on a PC, or VoiceOver on a Mac?
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