[nfbcs] Fwd: Collecting Information for Microsoft's new CAO

[Nicole Torcolini]

It does not matter what screen reader you are using. During os installation, a screen reader cannot be used.

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On Feb 23, 2016, at 12:54 PM, paras shah via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:

I think the following improvements should be made to assistive technologies
that Microsoft makes.
If you are installing windows, narrator should guide you through the
install process. Also, let's say you are resetting the PC, narrator should
speak any proms that come up during the reset process. Narrators should
work like voiceover and be a full-fledged screen reader. This is necessary
no matter what other companies say.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 2:02 PM ed meskys via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> I am also carboning Jan McSorley directly.
> 
> Over ten years ago a sighted friend helped me create several databases in
> ACCESS, which I have used successfully with JFW. While I could not create
> them, I was successful in looking up information, adding or deleting
> records, or updating fields. I did this in W98SE and WXP. My new computer
> has W7 and I cannot find the database. In WXP I would "enter" on "access,",
> type "ctr o", and backtab once. Then I would downarrow until I found the
> database I needed, and open it.
> 
> I had sighted help transferring my files to the new computer, but simply
> cannot find them to open them.
> 
> I have a slow learning curve in learning new software, so am reluctant to
> go
> to W10. How well have other blind users coped? I am using the Office 03
> version of Access, and had seen no need to find someone to reprogram my
> databases in a newer version. My friend who did the original programming
> died several years ago, and I do not have a new person.
> 
> If you think a reply on this listserv would bore others, please reply
> off-line directly to
> 
> edmeskys at gmail.com
> 
> Thanks, Ed Meskys
> 
> 
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