[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Katie,

I have heard of people using AIM with a chat client called 
Miranda, which apparently makes AIM and other chat services more 
accessible with JAWS.  Also, a question: you said that the latest 
version of AIM enables you to connect to Google or Facebook chat.  
So will this work the other way around; can I chat with somebody 
using AIM by using Google Chat on my BrailleNote?

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com
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Date sent: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:20:24 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Hi Patrick,
AIM is pretty accessible with JAWS and has an overall 
user-friendly,
intuitive interface.  Its most recent version (7.5, I believe) 
also
allows you to connect to Google and Facebook Chat, which is a 
great
feature since both of these popular IM  services are not 
particularly
accessible.  While JAWS used to be very reliable with speaking 
incoming
messages in previous versions of AIM, it unfortunately does not 
work
as well now; however, I just work around this by tabbing over to 
the
Conversation History field whenever a new message comes in, which 
is a
little annoying but not too big of a deal.  Hope this helps!
Katie


On 1/17/12, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
 Hey Guys,
 I'm curious to know: How accessible (if at all), is AIM? I'm 
using
 Internet Explorer and JAWS version 12.  Any 
tips/suggestions/help you
 can give me would be great.
 Thanks,
 Patrick

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