Re: [Fwd: ALL: vicug voice chat tonight]

[Neal Ewers <ewers@tracecenter.org>]

Hello to David and others,
Good timing, David.  I am collecting data on, and trying to become familiar with, various 
chat programs and how accessible they are to those of us who use screen readers.  I am 
particularly interested in those which allow voice to voice chat, but text chat programs 
are also something I am looking in to.

If any of you have had experience with either talking chat or text chat and their use 
with screen readers, I would very much appreciate knowing something about the 
accessibility strengths and weaknesses of the applications you have used.  You can e-mail 
me directly if you do not want to clutter up the list, but I suspect there are others on 
the list who would like to have this info as well.

I appreciate any help any of you can offer.

As for tonight's chat session, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it.  But, please post 
the schedule you come up with and I would like to join you in the future.

Talk to many of you soon.

At 01:00 PM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote:


>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: ALL: vicug voice chat tonight
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:13:36 -0500
>From: "M. J. P. Senk" <senkmj@TRFN.CLPGH.ORG>
>Reply-To: "M. J. P. Senk" <senkmj@TRFN.CLPGH.ORG>
>To: VICUG-L@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>
>Many of you may be suffering from cabin fever due to the snow and
>cold, so
>I'm proposing we get together on voice chat for a virtual vicug-l
>meeting.
>
>There is a link near the top of the Http://www.real-eyes.org site
>which
>takes you to a voice enabled web page.  anyone visiting the page with
>MS
>Internet Explorer and other browsers which support javaScript will
>beasked
>to install a plug-in for chat.  Just click yes and then accept the
>license
>and in less than a minute you will be ready to chat.  Of course,
>you'll
>have to find a microphone to plug into your sound card, but even
>without
>one you can join and listen in.
>
>I suggest we get together on the page at 8:00 p.m. Eastern / 7:00 p.m.
>Central time tonight (Wednesday) and consider setting up a schedule
>for
>other times and perhaps specific topics.
>
>The specific url is http://www.real-eyes.org/talk.html and if you have
>difficulty installing the JavaScript, I'm willing to help via e-mail
>and
>I'm sure you can also contact Jim who heads the kansas City group for
>helpful advice - jimkc@sky.net
>
>- mark
>
>toll free voice mail 888 700-9848 box 9995
>
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Neal Ewers
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