[bcab] Re: Accessibility considerations

Brian,
Excuse me for showing my ignorance, but how did JAWS know that it wasn't a
colour monitor?
Thanks.
Karina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Lingard" <b.lingard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:29 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Accessibility considerations


> Ottawa Canada
>
> I don't know if Jaws for Windows is very picky about the computer
> video card and monitor in the PC, but I know that several years
> ago I had Jaws for MS-DOS and while my PC had a CGA (colour
> graphics adapter), the Jaws macros and other configuration files
> would not work with a monochrome monitor as they had been written
> on a machine with the same video card as I had, but with a colour
> monitor.
>
> Seems my work PC had been shipped with a colour monitor but my
> work's PC guy figured a blind person didn't need a colour monitor
> as they were rare in the office at the time.
>
> When the colour monitor was connected, Jaws worked like a charm.
>
> Brian
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