[blindkid] chatting and JAWS

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Sun Mar 7 19:15:00 UTC 2010


The few times I've tried chatting with speech software, I found it more 
confusing than anything else. But some clients do work reasonably well. 
You'll have to consult younger persons than I about this, however.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 7:25 AM
Subject: [blindkid] chatting and JAWS


> Our Daughter, Kendra has a great interest in on-line chatting. She's a 
> bit young for that (first grade) but I have no problem with the  concept 
> of supervised chatting with select friends and family. She  hears about it 
> all the time, she should learn about it (in a safe way).
>
> The problem is that all the e-chatting we do in our house is pretty  much 
> on facebook. I have heard of facebook issues for JAWS users but  never 
> tried to explore it before. I tried last night. What a mess.  JAWS was 
> just spewing talk nonstop about all sorts of links-- hundreds  of links 
> and seemingly randomly jumping from one thing to the next--  there seems 
> no way to get JAWS into the chat window or at least to  stay there-- I did 
> hear it read a little bit of a chat dialogue once  but it jumped somewhere 
> else after only a few words were read.
>
> So I have two main questions-- 1) Is there a usable facebook solution 
> that will let the chat work reasonably well with chatting, and 2) what 
> other sorts of internet chat options seem to work better with JAWS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
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