[Trainer-Talk] accessible typing programs (

Tue Sep 18 11:51:47 UTC 2018

Hi Beth,
Just to clarify, have you gotten this to work non visually on the Chrome Book? I have checked the settings for audio and have it set to read characters and fully guided but it does not reliably announce what I should type next. I'm trying this with Chrome and JAWS on Windows. I have turned off the Virtual PC cursor to input info in the typing lesson.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Greg Aikens
Senior Assistive Technology Instructor 
Center for the Visually Impaired
739 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308
404-602-4285

CVI empowers those with vision loss to live with independence and dignity.

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We use https://typingclub.com. It has settings for audio that you can go and change once you are in the activity. It works on our chromebooks without a screen reader. I am sure some enterprising person could make a tutorial on it, I just haven't had the time...
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On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:44 AM Mason, Amy via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I just wanted to double check, these are the only three anyone knows about correct? I'm asking because I am more than a bit put out that all of them are quite patronizing to the students, at least I feel like Typeability and the Marvel soft options are.  I only had one student the summer I was working with high schoolers who didn't hate me for sitting them down to work on typing. It was not because of the typing itself, but the obnoxious nature of the program.  That particular student had an especially acerbic sense of humor, so and enjoyed making fun of the software. I don't want to have to train people with tools that would make kindergartners cringe.
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> I can't speak to the Talking Typer, I've not worked with it, though the difficulty people have in understanding it seems to be  a pretty big problem.
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> Thanks
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> Amy Mason
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> National Federation of the Blind
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> Hi everyone. We are currently using Talking Typer at my job and I was wondering what other folks are using to teach touch-typing at their facilities.
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> I've been getting a lot of complaints from students that the voices aren't clear enough when reciting words to type. Would be curious to hear some thoughts.
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> If you are using JAWS you can use Typability. Another program I like is Talking Typing Teacher.
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> > Hi everyone. We are currently using Talking Typer at my job and I 
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> I would second the TypeAbility suggestion. I know it requires JAWS but we switched to it from Talking Typing Teacher and have seen much better results. The lessons are far smaller and easier to repeat for fluency. There are also lessons that teach/reinforce basic text navigation and other important screen reader skills. I use it to preteach those skills before clients begin formal instruction using a computer.
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> Greg Aikens
> Senior Assistive Technology Instructor Center for the Visually 
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> If you are using JAWS you can use Typability. Another program I like 
> is Talking Typing Teacher.
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> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Brett Boyer via Trainer-Talk < 
> trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> > Hi everyone. We are currently using Talking Typer at my job and I 
> > was wondering what other folks are using to teach touch-typing at 
> > their facilities.
> >
> > I've been getting a lot of complaints from students that the voices 
> > aren't clear enough when reciting words to type. Would be curious to 
> > hear some thoughts.
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