[BlindTlk] Is Slack an accessible platform with Jaws?

[Ericka]

Hey thanks for the reference to Doug’s   list all that stuffs above my head but I know my husband can use some of his stuff.

Ericka Nelson

> On Aug 21, 2022, at 2:22 PM, David Andrews via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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