[Trainer-talk] JAWS, Bookshare, and Web reader

[David Goldfield]

Jim,
Bear in mind that I've not used a Brailliant display.  However, as you 
guessed, JAWS should display the book in Grade 2 Braille within Web 
reader if the Grade 2 translation is enabled in the JAWS Braille settings.
I've succesfully used the Web reader with NVDA and can offer the 
following observations.
First, Web Reader will work with Internet Explorer 9, not 8 and, from 
the best that I can tell, not with version 10, either.  If this is a 
Windows XP machine this means that you're out of luck with IE as version 
9 won't work on XP.  I've used it with Firefox, which is my browser of 
choice.  Whether you use IE or Firefox it is recommended that 
third-party cookies be enabled; otherwise the Web reader won't work 
properly and you may get messages indicating that you're not logged onto 
Bookshare, even if you know that you are.  I personally find it 
intrusive to enable all third-party cookies but I found a workaround.  I 
went into Firefox's cookie manager and made sure that I allowed cookies 
from salesforce.com and this seemed to have fixed the problem.  Once I 
did this the Web reader worked. I've not tried it on Google Chrome but, 
if you want to use that browser, you will be prompted to install a 
plug-in and you need to do this for Chrome to work with Web Reader.  
JAWS, at least later versions of it, does seem to work with Chrome 
fairly well.

I hope this info helps.

Jim Portillo wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I have questions I need to find answers to by tomorrow and not enough time
> to play around with what I need. <grin>
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> A student of mine needs to be able to read a bookshare book both using his
> Braille display and JAWS.  At first, I'd downloaded the BRF file and opened
> it with NotePad.  The Grade 2 Braille file came up just fine, but JAWS was
> reading the translated code.  That didn't work.
>
> Then I found out about Web Reader from Bookshare, and I guess I can click on
> the "Read Now" link, and the book will show up in both text and with JAWS.
> Here are my questions.  Oh, and this kid is using a Brailliant display.
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> First, JAWS seems to be reading just fine, but do you know if the actual
> book will appear in Grade 2 on the Braille display?  I don't have one
> available right now to test it out, and I see him first thing tomorrow
> morning.
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> Second, when I did the "read now" feature, Bookshare's introductory section
> popped up, and then when it ended, I just got a "frame end" message.  I
> couldn't go any further.  Do I use the Frames list for this, or should
> things be coming up on their own?
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> Finally, if Grade 2 Braille doesn't appear on the Braille display, what
> would be the easiest way of getting it to display in Grade 2 without
> affecting how JAWS is reading the book?
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> I thought perhaps altering the JAWS Braille setting, but not having used a
> Brailliant except for demos, I am not sure.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  My next thought is to possibly put it on his
> BrailleNote, but I'm not sure if he wants it done that way.
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> Jim
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