RE: jfw for the blind or visually impaired

  • From: "Kimsan Song" <kimsansong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:35:51 -0700

Ann:
Interesting, I should ask if there are any "criteria" that the teachers for
the blind have that determines if the student needs jaws training.
Take care.

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ann Byrne
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: jfw for the blind or visually impaired


>Where I teach, we recommend JAWS to people who need 5x magnification 
>or greater in order to read the screen.



>Hello:
>
>I wanted to post this here seeing as this mailing list gets lots of
traffick.
>
>My question is concerning the use of jaws and is the "screen" reader 
>mainly used for completely blind individuals or partially sighted
individuals?
>
>I am not a teacher for the blind, so it is interesting to me when a 
>person is told due to his or her "lack of vision" jaws will be 
>reccomended. So, the question raised here is where would a persons 
>vision need to be at in order to use jaws? If someone can read 20 
>point font or higher would jaws be necessary?
>
>Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
>Take care.
>
>

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