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From: Tricia Sutton
Date: Mon, May 08 2017 11:43AM
Subject: What accessibility software should a college library put on its public computers?
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Hi,
My spouse is a librarian at a community college. They are updating their pubic computers and want to make sure they have appropriate software (including the preferred versions) on them for the visually impaired. They are familiar with MAGic and Jaws. They want to know if those two are still considered the top ones / most used, if there are others they should replace either of those with, and if there are other applications they should consider adding.
Basically, they are looking for a list of what to install from people who know and use the software so that they have what is important to any visually impaired users who use the library's computers.
Thanks in advance!
Tricia Sutton
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From: Joy Relton
Date: Mon, May 08 2017 12:55PM
Subject: Re: What accessibility software should a college library put on its public computers?
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In addition to these two, I would recommend Acrobat Reader so that the users can read PDFs.
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Hi,
My spouse is a librarian at a community college. They are updating their pubic computers and want to make sure they have appropriate software (including the preferred versions) on them for the visually impaired. They are familiar with MAGic and Jaws. They want to know if those two are still considered the top ones / most used, if there are others they should replace either of those with, and if there are other applications they should consider adding.
Basically, they are looking for a list of what to install from people who know and use the software so that they have what is important to any visually impaired users who use the library's computers.
Thanks in advance!
Tricia Sutton
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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Mon, May 08 2017 1:28PM
Subject: Re: What accessibility software should a college library put on its public computers?
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JAWS is still widely used ... but not as much as it once was. Magic has never been a market leader and is likely to go away. Personally I would say JAWS, NVDA and Zoomtext.
Dave
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Hi,
My spouse is a librarian at a community college. They are updating their pubic computers and want to make sure they have appropriate software (including the preferred versions) on them for the visually impaired. They are familiar with MAGic and Jaws. They want to know if those two are still considered the top ones / most used, if there are others they should replace either of those with, and if there are other applications they should consider adding.
Basically, they are looking for a list of what to install from people who know and use the software so that they have what is important to any visually impaired users who use the library's computers.
Thanks in advance!
Tricia Sutton
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