Re: "smart board" and Jaws
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:57:37 -0700
Hi Cy,
It is more like the computers are displaying digitized pictures of text,
also known as bitmaps instead of real text. When there's no real text,
there's no accessibility.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: "smart board" and Jaws
> Sounds like there are computers being used but - the computers are only
> displaying the image or analog tv type signals and JAWS needs digitized
> text in a known format in order to read. CYS..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Brett, Thomas F
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:17 PM
> To: 'jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: "smart board" and Jaws
>
>
> If this is what I have seen, then JFW will not work. The smart board is
> like a TV. It receives the images from the central processor and
> displays than on other boards. Since there is no PC interface being
> used JFW isn't used. -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McElroy, WA6BEF [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:30 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: "smart board" and Jaws
>
> I wonder if anyone has ever heard of a thing called a "smart board and
> whether there is any way to get Jaws to read it?
> Evidently, this is a gadget that some schools are utilizing so that the
> teacher writes something, as they would on a chalk board, but it's
> networked to all the other "smart boards" in the room. Apparently,
> someone's child, second or third grade I think, will be in a classroom
> full
> of these things and he says he's heard that JAWS in fact doesn't work
> with
> them.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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