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

[Jim Barbour]

Which part of Microsoft having a screen reader in their OS would be
rediculous?

Jim

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:36:26PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> 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 List; NFB
> >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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