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

[Larry Wayland]

I think it is a good idea. The one in Windows 8 is a good start.  It has a
lot of room for improvement, but it is a lot better than any of the
Navigators in the past.
One of our tech people at the office has the rights to download prerelease
versions of Ms operating systems and we have had a good look at Windows 8.
Larry



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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 
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>>> ] 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
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>>> The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect 
>>> those of the Library of Congress, NLS.
>>>
>>>
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