[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Katie,

My circle of friends is like yours; most of them use either 
Google Chat, Facebook Chat, or Skype.  Is Facebook chat 
accessible? I know it doesn't work on the BrailleNote, unless you 
use a third-party Web site called eBuddy.  But is
it accessible with JAWS?
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
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Date sent: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:05:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

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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