[blindkid] Chromebooks

[David Andrews]

Google has an extension to Chrome called Chromevox which gives blind 
people some access.  I know they recruited people and did a bunch of 
testing around a year ago.  I don't remember much about results.  If 
you did some searches I would think you could come up with some data, 
and you could also ask on some of our more technical lists like nfbcs 
and gui-talk.

As I recall, there is some access but it is far from perfect.  A Mac 
or Windows would be better.
  at least at this time.

Dave

At 08:46 PM 3/1/2014, you wrote:
>A middle school we have been researcing for our daughter is looking 
>at outfitting all the students with Google Chromebooks. She would 
>likely be the only blind student potentially using these. I'm very 
>curious to know how likely we are to have problems with such a plan, 
>though I assume we might be able to access the same information with 
>a PC or Mac Laptop.
>
>I recall there were some NFB issues addressed relating to 
>Chromebooks a while back. From what I read, they do have some 
>accessibility features, but I don't have any current access to 
>explore any of these machines directly.
>
>Has anyone explored these accessibility features, and can anyone 
>compare them to JAWS on a PC, or VoiceOver on a Mac?