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

[John G. Heim]

You tell me.
I've always thought it was a good idea. I'm all for it.

On Jul 22, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Jim Barbour wrote:

> 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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