[nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Amy Sabo amylsabo at comcast.net
Mon Jan 23 05:06:26 UTC 2012 

	No problem chris... I'm glad that I was able to help.
Just email me off list if you have any questions or need any
additional help.



Hugs,
amy

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[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:56 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Hi Amy,

Thank you for the information! I already have Windows Live 
Messenger on my computer, but haven't tried it out.  I will check

this new feature out and let you know if I have any questions.  
Thanks again!

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: "Amy Sabo" <amylsabo at comcast.net
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:47:52 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessibility of AIM

Hello chris and all,

Sorry, for the late notice on this topic but, I will throw in my
2 cents worth on this topic.  Yes, aim is accessible with jfw.  I
use it with jfw and, it works fine.  I have this along with
windows live messenger both on my computers and, I use both.  
But,
as others have said the newest version of windows live messenger
has an awesome tool that you can use.

If you don't want to download aim if you know of anyone who uses
aim, google-talk, or yahoo messenger you can chat with all of
your friends through only using one instant messenger client
which is windows live messenger.

When you add a contact don't to forget to include all of their
contact information like for aim screen name or for the other im
clients like google-talk or yahoo messenger just put in their
emailaddress/screen name with google or yahoo.com and, then add
them to your contacts.  Then you are ready to go!

Another awesome feature added to the newest version of windows
live messenger is that you can configure all of your facebook
friends into your msn messenger client and, then you can chat
with them by using the facebook chat feature through windows live
messenger since thee facebook chat feature on the facebook.com
site isn't accessible with jfw.

Unfortunately, I don't have the link for the newest version of
windows live messenger but, if you just google it or go to
msn.com then I'm sure that you will find it!

I hope this information is helpful to you all! Take care and
happy chatting!



Hugs,
amy

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[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Katie Wang
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:05 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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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