[Electronics-talk] Computer Usage For Deaf Persons

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You read my mind, Christopher.
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Computer Usage For Deaf Persons


> I'm not deaf, so maybe I'm missing something, but what accessibility 
> problems does a deaf person have using a computer? I think Windows has an 
> option to provide visual dialogs instead of some of the warning beeps. I 
> guess videos would need to be captioned, but I think this is up to the 
> video provider, and I don't see this as equivalent to a screen reading 
> program like JAWS.
>
> On 08/06/2013 07:29 PM, Nicholas Robertson wrote:
>> A coworker saw me using JAWS. He then mentioned he had a hearing impaired 
>> daughter, and wondered if there was an equivalent software package that 
>> made computers accessible for deaf people like JAWS does for us. Any 
>> feedback?
>>
>> Nicholas S. Robertson
>> Sent from my iPhone
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