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Visual studio and Visual Basic
by Christian 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi all, I am thinking about learning Visual Basic and just have a few questions. This may not be the right list, but hope someone can help. Any good resource for learning Visual Basic? And also, I just read that Visual Studio 2017 has just been released, maybe this is the version to go for? Many thanks for any tips!

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sip soft phone android apps and Asterisk PBX
by David Mehler 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hello, Is anyone using an android phone with a Sip soft phone app to connect to an Asterisk PBX? I've got recommendations on two accessible soft phone apps, CSipSimple and Zoiper. This is on a Nougat system. Any pro con reports for either of these apps or any information on other apps appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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sip soft phone android apps and Asterisk PBX
by David Mehler 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hello, Is anyone using an android phone with a Sip soft phone app to connect to an Asterisk PBX? I've got recommendations on two accessible soft phone apps, CSipSimple and Zoiper. This is on a Nougat system. Any pro con reports for either of these apps or any information on other apps appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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wiki.iavit.org back up
by John G. Heim 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Hi Everybody, The wiki is back up at wiki.iavit.org. That is the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists. It went down because the mediawiki package was removed from ubuntu server and an upgrade removed the old package. If you have any info of general interest to blind or visually impaired technologists, please consider registering as a user at www.iavit.org and creating a page on our wiki. You will have to request an account and have it approved before you cant create and edit pages. Sorry but spammers are just so much trouble we had to do it.

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Recommended Jabber clients
by Katherine M. Moss 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi all, This one has just come up; trying to connect to a private Jabber server (uses our AD domain credentials, and I was hoping to find a good Jabber client; I tried Spark from Ignite Realtime, and turns out screen readers can't get even an ounce of information worth a dang out of it. Also tried Miranda in the past, but have been told that when AD is used, Miranda misses important information; without AD, though, it works just fine. Not to mention, I can't even seem to log into it anyway, not from work, at least. If it matters, it has nothing to do with work; it's a personal project. I know tht Instantbird works, though that thing's not been updated in around three years. Any others? I would assume that the server is running either Openfire or Ejabberd. Thanks.

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Anyone want a job for a few hours?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

I have a word document with a reasonably complex form. I need to make this document accessible in the next 14 hours. Does anyone here have the required skills? This will probably require a total rewrite of the existing document using all of the content in it. Note, this content is not accessible so you'll need to give some thought to how you'll get access to everything. I don't really want to do it so would be happy to pay someone else to take this off my list. It's been a long day and the last thing I want to do is this. You'll need Paypall or something to enable me to transfer the money. I'll let you set the rate. It obviously wouldn't take 14 hours. I'd say it will take about 2.5 to 3 hours at most. Regards Darragh

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Anyone want a job for a few hours?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

I have a word document with a reasonably complex form. I need to make this document accessible in the next 14 hours. Does anyone here have the required skills? This will probably require a total rewrite of the existing document using all of the content in it. Note, this content is not accessible so you'll need to give some thought to how you'll get access to everything. I don't really want to do it so would be happy to pay someone else to take this off my list. It's been a long day and the last thing I want to do is this. You'll need Paypall or something to enable me to transfer the money. I'll let you set the rate. It obviously wouldn't take 14 hours. I'd say it will take about 2.5 to 3 hours at most. Regards Darragh

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Jaws 18 and Cisco Jabber
by Mario Percinic 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Hey all. So does anyone here use Cisco jabber with jaws 18 succsessfully? The reason why i ask this is because of their scripts, and from what i could find, their last edition of the scripts was for jaws 15 and 16, and i know that in the later versions of jfw, most of the old scripts had to be recompiled or redesigned in order to get them working.

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Jaws 18 and Cisco Jabber
by Mario Percinic 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hey all. So does anyone here use Cisco jabber with jaws 18 succsessfully? The reason why i ask this is because of their scripts, and from what i could find, their last edition of the scripts was for jaws 15 and 16, and i know that in the later versions of jfw, most of the old scripts had to be recompiled or redesigned in order to get them working.

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Has anyone tried an Android-based VOIP phone of any kind?
by Katherine M. Moss 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi all, I'm asking this more out of curiosity than anything else, but since I already have Ubiquiti on the router and wireless access point, if I ever wanted a VOIP line for my apartment(and I'm probably just crazy enough to consider it), I'd probably go for one of their VOIP phones which run Android. Has anyone had experience with either these or some other android flavor? I'd think they contain the same accessibility features as cell phones? Thanks for any feedback.

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