[BlindTlk] Is Slack an accessible platform with Jaws?

[David Andrews]

aThis is very old information -- and you shouldn't spread it in my 
opinion.  JAWS has not had the video problems, to which you refer, for years.

I have used it with Slack, and it worked ok. I think Doug Lee has 
some scripts, check on his web site:
dlee.org
Dave


At 04:21 PM 8/20/2022, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk wrote:
>When changing versions of jaws, two show stopper problems can happen if
>jaws works at all.  A new computer with a video driver fs knows nothing
>about can be a problem since jaws is video driver sensitive.  No such
>problem with window-eyes and I expect no such problem with nvda.  That is
>one show stopper.  The second show stopper can happen when a binary built
>for an earlier version of jaws is all that's available and the source code
>got lost and is no longer available so it's impossible to compile the
>source for the shiny new version of jaws just installed on a machine.  At
>different times during my career I encountered both of these show
>stoppers.  Jaws cannot work with oracle forms since the source code for
>the jaws support package is no longer available and that cut me out of
>lots of work I could have been doing.  So jaws prevented access rather
>than made it possible.  A newer version of jaws had information on a video
>driver that was on the refurbished machine the navy gave me to use.
>Unfortunately, the Navy version of jaws was one version behind and didn't
>know anything about that driver.  So me and the help desk staff put a call
>into fs and we downloaded the current version temporarily and saved the
>video drivers from that version then deleted the current version so the
>older navy version of jaws could work.
>I have no idea if nvda could have run oracle forms accessibly and I'm
>rather certain nobody working for D.O.D. has got an answer to that
>question to this day or will ever get an answer to that question.
>
>
>Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
>defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
>.
>
>On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Jen via BlindTlk wrote:
>
> >  I'm not sure, but you could e-mail
> > support at freedomscientific.com
> > and ask.
> > Good luck!    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 03:58:17 PM EDT, Judy 
> Jones via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> >  Our Prime Women's group is considering using it.
> >
> >
> >
> > I would be using it on the PC and on my Galaxy phones.
> >
> >
> >
> > Judy Jones