[blindkid] chatting and JAWS

[Albert J Rizzi]

Kids today use aim a lot, or as us old timers call it aol. I find aol to be
very user friendly for chats, it has a send field and allows for movement
between screens and such. I found it doable. I would also suggest trying
other versions of Facebook, I am working to conquer this one as well. I have
tried their mobil screen and am now investigating their light Facebook
version. I am able to read other chat ssent but am hopelessly stuck trying
to figure out how to send a response back. We are talking about live chats
right? I have found Facebook a little challenging but am able to post
responses on my wall and other peoples walls. Give aol a go. It also has
great parental controls for you to use to protect her from inappropriate
sites and predators.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Holloway
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 10:25 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
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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