Hi, My brief testing on both Windows 10 and iOS shows quite a potential (iOS version isn't polished yet and you'll need a Microsoft Account to use it). For Cortana on desktop: I think there is a better place to discuss this sort of thing: http://groups.io/g/win10 I'll answer as to why Cortana nor other screen readers read reminders, as well as other accessibility considerations for Cortana and Windows 10 on that forum (not here). Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of deidre muccio Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 7:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: windows 10 personal assistant on a desktop computer Here are a few more comments from a screen reader using friend on how Cortana works on a desktop computer. I don't know how this compares with it's delivery on an IOS device. If you give Cortana a reminder, when the reminder time arrives it puts the reminder message on the screen, but does not read aloud what the reminder message is. It will open word pad, but my friend did not succeed in getting it to open documents or even internet explorer. What he likes is that you can ask cortana what time it is, what the date is, to tell you a joke or sing you a song, or tell you a story. You can ask it silly things, like do you love me, or what is your favorite color? If you ask her who her parents are, she says, "bill gates." you can ask Cortana things like, convert quarts to liters, or how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon, or how many miles equals how many kilometers, or just about any conversion you want. If you ask how old jimmy carter is, she will give the correct answer. If you ask her how old john denver is, she will reply with something like john denver was 42 when he died in 1987. These are not the correct numbers - I just made them up by way of example. Cortana can also give you the dictionary's version of word definition, you say hey cortana to wake her up, then you say, define, and then say the word, and she's right on. And if you have some music in your documents folder, say maybe some beatles songs, ask cortana to play i wanna hold your hand, and she will! if cortana can't give you a quick and easy answer she will open a website that will probably help you find the answer you need! According to my friend who I asked about this, another important note which might help some is that if you get windows ten, there is currently no screen reader that works good with windows ten. By default windows ten will use a new version of a browser, it it is called edge, to fix this press the windows key, then type in default programs, on the next screen you will be able to change the default back to internet explorer. My friend recommends doing this, since he finds that all the screen readers he uses work much better with internet explorer than with the edge browser! It seems to me that Cortana is more a benefit than not. Deidre -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
