[nfbcs] [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard

[John G. Heim]

I hope you're not blaming Microsoft for not having a screen reader  
built into their operating systems like Apple does. Because that  
weould be truely ridiculous.

On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Curtis Chong wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> One is tempted to ponder the effect this interesting design will  
> have on the
> nonvisual user.  If Microsoft were to conduct as much research and  
> put as
> much thought into the nonvisual ways a touch screen keyboard is to  
> be used,
> then we, the blind, would really be moving forward in this area.   
> Alas, my
> expectations here are not so high<sigh>.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk- 
> bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:37 AM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing  
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> in Computer Science Mailing List; program-l at freelists.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard
>
> The "Building Windows 8" blog from Microsoft continues to serve up
> interesting information, and a heads-up for what we may be dealing  
> with in
> future versions of Windows.  The July 17 installment at
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/17/designing-the-windows-8-touch-
> keyboard.aspx
> describes the research and decisions that went into Microsoft's
> implementation of the on-screen keyboard for Windows 8 apps running  
> in the
> Metro mode on a touch screen.  How this will work with Narrator,  
> JAWS or
> Window-Eyes is anybody's guess, but it's interesting reading, anyway.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
> National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
> Library of Congress   202-707-0535
> http://www.loc.gov/nls
> The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect  
> those of
> the Library of Congress, NLS.
>
>
>
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