Tom, One additional note on tablets. You may find many still coming with windows 8.1 but all can be upgraded to Windows 10 for free. I am not upgrading my Dell venue pro simply because I only use it a couple of times a year for traveling. This little I do with it is very doable in 8.1
Al -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Behler Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Thanks, Pablo. Am I correct in saying that both of the tablets you use run on something other than Windows 10? Also, what version of Jaws to you use with these devices? Dr. Tom Behler -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 10:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Hi tom, Ok, I am going to talk about my own experience. I am not going to say that my experience should be true for everybody, because likes are different for everybody. I am totally blind, and by experience, if I work in a small tablet, for me is very easy to search something on the screen with my fingers if I am not able to find it with the keyboard. It happen some times when the accessibility is not the best in some kind of web pages or programs. Probably for a person using magnification, a large screen is better because their degree of sight is going to be better due to the large screen. Both tablets that I have are 10.8 inches, they are not the smaller tablets in the market. But they are the smaller with good processors. My Microsoft tablet has an i5 processor with 8 Gb of ram, it has just 10.8 inches. It is not the newer tablet in the market now, it is a surface pro 2, around 2 years old, but still the surface pro 3 and surface pro 4 are with i5 processors and 8 gb of ram. So I paid half part of the current price of those Microsoft surface pro 3 or 4, but I have a surface pro 2 with the same hardware. Again, the size for me is important because is easier to find things on the screen, and also is easy to carry a tablet of 10.8 inches than other of 13.6 inches. But I don't want to create discussions about which tablet is better. It is my experience. Only my experience. In my work, I use another tablet dell venue pro 11, it has 10.8 inches, and it has a atom 2.3ghz processor, with only 8gb of ram. It is a tablet very limited if I compare with my personal tablet, but it still is very fast and I am able to work with office 2013, and inside a intranet. My Dell tablet has a keyboard very nice, that is metal as the tablet, and the keyboard and the tablet are attached. When I close the keyboard and the tablet, they looks like a mini laptop, very comfortable and nice. Also the keyboard provide extra battery to the tablet. It looks very professional. About accessibility? In both tablets, Microsoft and dell, jaws works and NVDa works very well. , important. I chose the , -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Behler Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 9:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Pablo: I'm sorry that I neglected to put the information about the degree of my visual impairment in my original post. I am legally totally blind, and use the Jaws Speech Screen Reading program. I'm currently using Jaws version 16. Although I don't personally use a monitor, I would like a monitor that is reasonably easy to look at, should I happen to need sighted assistance. With this in mind, I don't think a smaller monitor would be an issue. I'd be very interested in any tablet recommendations you can make, based on what I have now shared with you here. Dr. Tom Behler from Michigan -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pablo Morales Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Honestly, I have tried several tablets, and have not found a lot of differences between the most part of tablets that I tried. I have a personal tablet, Microsoft surface pro 2, with a processor i5, and 8 g of ram, it works faster than my desktop. For working I use a dell Venue pro 11 that I use in my work, and it has a atom 2.3 Ghz and just 4gb of ram. The dell tablet works just fine, working on office 2013 pro. So make a recommendation about whitch tablet is better, I need to ask you first, are you totally blind, or you need magnification? A tablet with a small display will be better if you are a screen reader user, if you need to use magnification, a large screen is better. A good processor and more than 4 or more ggb of ram are going to make your life better, now, the brand? Just Microsoft is not the best. Dell has good tablets also, Asus, acer, Lenovo, HP, just a little bit of commmon sence, brands that are popular, no something that you never heard before. ,-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Behler Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Matthew: A number of other list members have suggested the surface pro to me, so I think I will start checking into them here. The case with keyboard also seems appealing, should I need to do a lot of text entry when traveling. Thank you! Dr. Tom Behler from Michigan -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Hi, I wonder if a serface pro would be would work for you. I think you can get a case with a keyboard and with that in mind, you should be good. Matthew -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Behler Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 8:02 PM To: Jaws users list <[email protected]> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Windows Tablets Hello, everyone. I have a question that I hope will not be considered off topic for this list. I would like to purchase some sort of a Windows tablet to use when traveling, and for when I don't want to drag my laptop computer around. I am currently using Jaws 16, but plan to upgrade to Jaws 17 at some point, probably in the next few months. I assume that any windows-based tablet that I might get now will automatically come with Windows 10 installed, which I'm ok with, since I'll eventually need to upgrade my other computers to that operating system at some point. Can anyone give me recommendations and approximate costs of windows tablets that would have sufficient resources to accommodate Jaws, and basic Microsoft software such as Microsoft Office, Outlook e-mail, etc.? At one point, I had considered moving to an IPad, but I am quite comfortable with the Jaws to windows interface, so would prefer to stick with a Windows tablet if at all possible. Thank you! 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