[nfbcs] [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard

[Jim Barbour]

Larry, when you say "a lot better than any of the Navigators in the
past" what are you comparing windows 8 to?  IOS, Android, windows
mobile, talks, mobile speak?

Thanks,

Jim

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:07:36PM -0500, Larry Wayland wrote:
> I think it is a good idea. The one in Windows 8 is a good start.  It has a
> lot of room for improvement, but it is a lot better than any of the
> Navigators in the past.
> One of our tech people at the office has the rights to download prerelease
> versions of Ms operating systems and we have had a good look at Windows 8.
> Larry
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of John G. Heim
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:53 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard
> 
> You tell me.
> I've always thought it was a good idea. I'm all for it.
> 
> On Jul 22, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Jim Barbour wrote:
> 
> > Which part of Microsoft having a screen reader in their OS would be 
> > rediculous?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:36:26PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> >> I hope you're not blaming Microsoft for not having a screen reader 
> >> built into their operating systems like Apple does. Because that 
> >> weould be truely ridiculous.
> >>
> >> On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Curtis Chong wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings:
> >>>
> >>> One is tempted to ponder the effect this interesting design will 
> >>> have on the nonvisual user.  If Microsoft were to conduct as much 
> >>> research and put as much thought into the nonvisual ways a touch 
> >>> screen keyboard is to be used,
> >>> then we, the blind, would really be moving forward in this area.   
> >>> Alas, my
> >>> expectations here are not so high<sigh>.
> >>>
> >>> Cordially,
> >>>
> >>> Curtis Chong
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> >>> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> >>> ] On
> >>> Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd
> >>> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:37 AM
> >>> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing 
> >>> List; NFB in Computer Science Mailing List; program-l at freelists.org
> >>> Subject: [gui-talk] Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard
> >>>
> >>> The "Building Windows 8" blog from Microsoft continues to serve up 
> >>> interesting information, and a heads-up for what we may be dealing 
> >>> with in future versions of Windows.  The July 17 installment at
> >>>
> >>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/17/designing-the-windows-
> >>> 8-touch-
> >>> keyboard.aspx
> >>> describes the research and decisions that went into Microsoft's 
> >>> implementation of the on-screen keyboard for Windows 8 apps running 
> >>> in the Metro mode on a touch screen.  How this will work with 
> >>> Narrator, JAWS or Window-Eyes is anybody's guess, but it's 
> >>> interesting reading, anyway.
> >>>
> >>> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service 
> >>> for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
> >>> Library of Congress   202-707-0535
> >>> http://www.loc.gov/nls
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> >>> those of the Library of Congress, NLS.
> >>>
> >>>
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