speaking of the chromebox how accessible is that machine?
have been considdering a chrome box but was unsure if a totally blind
person could use it\
Hank
On 12/4/2013 10:46 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi!
Just been reading my local paper which has a technology section appearing every
Thursday and one of the featured topics this week was the new voice recognition
which is in beta found in Google Chrome.
I don't know how accessible Google Chrome is JAWS or Window-Eyes these days but
I do know that it appeared to be reasonably accessible with NVDA last time I
tried it which was a little while ago so perhaps things have advanced since
then?
Anyway back to the point of voice recognition, if you use the search facility at
google.com you can say something like "Okay Google Search" to activate the
voice recognition system and then just tell Google what you're searching for, the
computer will speak the results back in a summary and display them on the screen.
This facility is also available in several model of Android phone though I'm
yet to discover exactly which one's though I suspect that the Nexus range -
given that they usually get the most recent and updated versions of the Android
Operating system - would be a fair bet for these features.
I have a Samsung Chromebox here so I'll be taking it for an update trip across
the World Wide Web later on today and see if I'm able to use the voice
recognition with its version of the Chrome browser.
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