[BlindTlk] Is Slack an accessible platform with Jaws?

[Judy Jones]

Thank you, Dave, for that info.  The group hasn't changed over to the
platform yet.  I'm going to download it on my Galaxy S21 to see how it does.
There are times when phone access can be preferable to the PC, but who
knows?

Have a great weekend.

Judy


Judy

"Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of David Andrews via
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 12:22 PM
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Cc: David Andrews <dandrews920 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Is Slack an accessible platform with Jaws?

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


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