[Electronics-talk] ACCESSIBLE TABLETS/NETBOOKS

[JULIE PHILLIPSON]

I have used an acer 10.1 netbook for 5 years now running jaws.works great.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] ACCESSIBLE TABLETS/NETBOOKS


> JAWS doesn't run on Android. I was assuming the netbook would be running 
> Windows, although you could go with a netbook running Linux and using 
> Orca. It would be even snappier than a Windows based netbook.
>
> Accessible tablets would be running IOS with VoiceOver or Android with 
> Talk Back, unless you can run JAWS on a Surface Pro running Windows 8.
>
> On 03/07/2013 08:59 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> If it doesn't work because jaws is too large, you might consider trying
>> nvda and get away with a smaller footprint.  I'm surprised jaws even runs
>> on android at all, I thought that was a Linux variant. On Thu, 7 Mar 
>> 2013,
>> Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>
>>> Netbooks will typically be accessible. The keyboard may be a bit small 
>>> and
>>> you'll want to make sure it has enough RAM to run your screen reader,
>>> especially JAWS.
>>>
>>> Tablets are generally touch screen devices, and the only accessible 
>>> tablets I
>>> know of are the iPad and those running Android 4.0 or later.
>>>
>>> The Surface Pro from MS might work with a screen reader like JAWS, but I
>>> haven't heard any first hand experience with that.
>>>
>>> On 03/07/2013 05:25 PM, Anita Ogletree wrote:
>>>> Has anyone ever used a tablet or netbook? If so, was it accessible? I
>>>> found some reasonable ones on Amazon.
>>>>
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>> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
>> Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen 
>> readers?
>>
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Julie Phillipson