[nfbcs] Using Apple Photo Stream on Windows with JAWS or NVDA

[Kevin Fjelsted]

ChromeVox has built-in navigation controls and accessibility i.e., speech and Braille output, that permit one to access the app without the need for a separate screen reader.
So neither Window Eyes, Voiceover,  or JAWS is required.
This is not a web site context it is an accessibility context for the app itself i.e., Google Chrome.

-Kevin

On Jan 4, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> If one were to employ your reasoning throughout the software industry, then
> window-eyes users would have no reason to complain if software and web site
> developers developed their sites for JAWS. I'm afraid that won't fly in the
> blind user community.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Fjelsted
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 8:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Using Apple Photo Stream on Windows with JAWS or NVDA
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> I can use Chromevox across multiple platforms i.e., it is accessible.
> However it is accessible through the implementation of it's own
> accessibility platform which actually improves consistency and
> supportability.  It is totally acceptable. to facilitate a common
> accessibility interface in this manner. In other words, I don't think that
> there should be a mandate that products be accessible via JAWS for the
> instance of  the windows platform, If they are indeed accessible through
> another method such as ChromeVox supports.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Nicole Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I don't quite understand what you mean about Chromevox. 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Fjelsted
>> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 3:51 PM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [ ] Using Apple Photo Stream on Windows with JAWS or NVDA  
>> 
>> Interesting question about accessibility on a second platform.
>> Microsoft word is not at accessible on the Mac in fact none of the office
>> products are.
>> In the case of Microsoft office for windows, would there be any
>> accessibility without a third party screen reader since Microsoft seems to
>> get by being off the hook for supporting screen reading functions beyond
> the
>> Navigator bare bones?
>> 
>> iTunes is only accessible on windows because of outside pressures
>> litigiously or otherwise.
>> 
>> Chromevox is accessible on multiple platforms only because it made it's
> own
>> sub platform. :) We should be demanding that an app be accessible on any
>> platform it is built for.
>> 
>> -Kevin
>> 
>> On Jan 3, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Nicole Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone had any luck with managing the Apple photo stream on 
>>> Windows using JAWS or NVDA? It shows up in two places, which are the 
>>> actual location and some sort of shortcut under My Computer. The one 
>>> under My Computer is completely inaccessible. The actual location 
>>> works like a regular folder; however, moving the files around there 
>>> has no effect on the files that get synced to my iPhone, so I am 
>>> guessing that there is something magical about the not accessible one. 
>>> Any suggestions? Also, to that end, out of curiosity, if a company 
>>> makes a product that runs on an operating system besides their own, 
>>> should they have to make it work with the accessibility features of that
>> operating system?
>>> 
>>> Nicole
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