[WEB4LIB] The totally blind

[Chris Murphy]

We have a workstation that includes a PC with JAWS and ZoomText, a scanner 
reader for print materials such as books, and other tools to assist people who 
are blind, have low vision, or have various physical or learning disbilities.

We do not use Public Web Browser on the PC, but because PWB uses IE as its 
engine, I suspect there would be no problem using JAWS.

You can check out our set up at 
http://www.thecommunitylibrary.org/reference/atw.html.

If you would like more information, please let me know.

Best regards,

Chris Murphy
-- 
Christopher Murphy
Information Systems Manager
The Community Library, Ketchum, Idaho
chrism at thecommunitylibrary.org
http://www.thecommunitylibrary.org

Mike Novak wrote:
> Greetings Web4libers,
> 
> I'm curious about in-library web accessibility for the totally blind.  We
> have ZoomText XTRA that includes a screen reader along with screen
> magnification software, but it doesn't really seem adequate for the totally
> blind.  We have a new patron who is totally blind and is used to using JAWS,
> which seems to be the de facto standard, so we're looking into that.  Has
> anyone used JAWS with Public Browser (PWB)?  Do you make a scanner available
> for scanning in documents for JAWS?  If so, do you then make the scanner
> available to other library patrons to scan photos, etc.?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Novak
> Systems Librarian
> University City Public Library
> 
> 
> 
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