[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

[Katie Wang]

Hi Chris,
I have heard of Miranda but it appears to be a little tedious to set
up, so given that I still find AIM relatively usable (see my previous
post) I decided that it's not really worth my effort at this point. I
have heard that it works really well with JAWS once it is configured
properly though, so feel free to give it a try if you are feeling
technologically adventurous!
To answer your other question, I don't believe that the gchat program
can be configured to connect with AIM. I don't know about your circle
of friends, but from my personal experience I have found that AIM has
somewhat fallen out of favor; most people I know use Google or
Facebook Chat instead. I mainly use AIM as a way to access the other
IM clients on my PC, which are not as accessible. If you do have
friends who are AIM users, I would encourage you to give the program a
try-- It's not perfect but really shouldn't disappoint too much!
Katie


On 1/18/12, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> nuisance."
> -- Kenneth Jernigan
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> 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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