[WEB4LIB] The totally blind

[Jacque King]

Thanks for the question Mike.  I would like information on this as well.
We are currently setting up an Assistive Technology PC which will have PWB
and JAWS (for W2K) installed. We too, are looking at hooking up a scanner
to this PC....small world.

Jacque King
Library Technical Support Specialist
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street
Fort Collins, CO  80524
(970) 221-6716
king at julip.fcgov.com


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, 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
>
>
>