[blindkid] chatting and JAWS

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On 3/7/10, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org> wrote:
> 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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Hi Richard:

Facebook chat is doable with jaws, not particularly friendly, but
doable. It involves routing the jaws cursor a lot, I am not sure how
much Kendra knows about or uses a computer...I know I didn't know
about computer at all at her age but things have certainly evolved
since I was in the first grade. MSN is a lot more friendly, as chat
messages are automatically read. With that said, I've noticed a shift
away from MSN to Facebook. MSN was super popular when I was a teen,
but not so much anymore.

HTH,

Patricia