[Trainer-talk] Accessible Forms

Wed May 12 21:44:31 UTC 2010

agreed, I can't stand the fact we have a bunch of JAWS Only trainers around our field who claim to be Assistive Technology trainer/experts but they only know JAWS. but get them in front of a mac or draggon, or Win Eyes or Thunder or NVDA or System Access or Dolphin or any other Assistive Tech out there besides JAWS and they choke up and get nothing accomplish.

I can say that both myself and my techs that I employ are all trained, and knowledgible about not only blindness technology but many other physical disability related tech. 

Its my job, its what I do. and this is why I don't need aproval from anyy ol' Institution saying that I know what I know because if I took certificates on every subject I'd had experience on I'd still be in school to this day.

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On May 12, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] wrote:

> I noticed in the original question, it referenced JAWS-accessible forms.  I'd like to expand on that question and insert "speech recognition software" accessible forms.  All too often, I find that people involved with accessibility (or "Section 508") here in the Fed government assume that if a document is designed for JAWS access (rather than generically screen reader access), they assume that nothing different or more needs to be done for speech-recognition accessibility.  As a user of Dragon Naturally Speaking myself, I find this is not at all the case.
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> I realize this is an NFB list, so I assume most discussion is from the vision perspective, but still amongst people who "get it." <smile>
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> Does anyone know of strategies, software, or training materials
> available to teach individuals how to make JAWS accessible forms with
> various form elements, i.e. radio buttons, combo boxes, text boxes, etc.
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