[JDEV] Accessability for the Impaired

Dave Smith dizzyd at jabber.org
Wed May 8 08:25:21 CDT 2002


On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 03:22 PM, Chris McDonald wrote:

> MyJabber works with two of the screen readers that the visually impaired
> have been using here...Jaws and WindowEyes...you can download evaluation
> copies of both of them on the web.  The reason that myJabber works and
> WinJab/JabberIM don't' work is that Jaws/WindowEyes are written in VB as 
> is
> myJabber.  Jabber IM and WinJab are written in Delphi and they don't get
> along with the screen readers.
>
You should try exodus (http://exodus.sf.net) -- from what I've heard, it 
works great with screen readers.

Diz




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