-----Original Message----- From: BBM Software Sevices [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:46 AM To: HUNT, LINDA Subject: Re: Accessible Technology for the Blind Although I haven't tried it and I am not so far a big fan of Window Eyes and it doesn't work with NT, it does have a feature you might want to talk to HJ about, now that was a big joke. That is you can have it start before windows, and I assume this means you would have all the good stuff. It seems kind of funny to me, because at the level they are in at, it would be pretty easy to do, but this is an industry, I mean aids for the visually impaired, that moves slowly and even the people have accepted that and are frighten by dynamic companies. I have both win95 and an NT system, let me take a peek in my spare time, another little joke. I find it strange that these operating systems don't have alerts at these levels, I find the sound they use obnoxious but that is because I don't need them. Have you spoken to either HJ or GWmicro about the idea, and heres even a bigger yuck, have you tried to talk to Microsoft. Best Regards Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: HUNT, LINDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bennett, Jeffrey B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Jaws Listserv' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 September, 1999 10:25 AM Subject: Accessible Technology for the Blind > I read your message on the Jaws listserv while catching up on my mail after > vacation. I have a suggestion for you, though I don't know if it would > benefit sighted people. Pardon the pun, but Windows NT users who are blind > must "fly blind" when rebooting their computers. We have to listen for the > disk drive to stop whirring and guess when to press ctrl+alt+delete to log > in. A beep or some other notification mechanism would be appreciated. I > also have this same problem on the family Win 98 computer, where I have to > guess when to log into my Jaws specific settings. > > Maybe the hook for sighted people would be that they can get their coffee > instead of watching the screen constantly and just listen for the beep to > log in. > - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
