[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Sat Jan 21 22:13:44 UTC 2012

Hi Chris,
I haven't played around with Facebook Chat much so can't say this for
sure, but I think it is one of those things that is technically
accessible with JAWS but not particularly user-friendly. It is
definitely worth a try if you really want to use it though!
Katie

On 1/21/12, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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