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

[Larry Wayland]

Jim:
I missed spoke, missed typed, or just plain missed. I ment "Narrator, not
"Navigator.  I was trying to compare narrator in Windows 8 with earlier
versions.
Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jim Barbour
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:43 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard

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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