[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Sat Jan 21 22:09:48 UTC 2012

gosh, kids are losing social skills. What about actually picking up a phone 
and talking? what a concept! if more did that, accessible of these open 
somewhat unsafe social sites would not be such a issue.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:49 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

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
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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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