Its certainly usable enough, on the odd occasion I come across something which 
won't work but that's not that often, I paid $120.00 for my Samsung model and 
for what I get out of it the price was well worth paying.

These things aren't steller power houses so if you're looking for that then 
forget a Chrombox.


On 5 Dec 2013, at 12:32 pm, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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