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Accessible voice and text chat clients/systems
by Bill Dengler 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hello, This might not be the right list for this sort of thing, but I figured it’d be worth a shot. With Skype’s accessibility degrading on Windows and virtually disappearing on the Mac after recent updates, I’m looking for alternatives. I’m looking for a service (or collection of services used together) for realtime voice and text chat. The services must have accessible, native (i.e. not a web view) apps on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. I am willing to consider an app with a web view if accessibility is excellent. Incoming text chat messages must be automatically read aloud for JAWS users. The following features are nice to have, in rough order of most to least important, but are not required: 1. Automatic reading of incoming text chat messages for NVDA, VoiceOver users. 2. End-to-end encryption. 3. Use of the Opus codec (or something similar) allowing for high, yet stable audio quality depending on network conditions. 4. Conference/group chat support. 5. Based on open standards (or has a public API), so if the app breaks we can find/write another. A few options I thought of: faceTime/iMessage: doesn’t work for Windows/Android/non-Apple users. Whatsapp/Signal/Slack: desktop apps are web based Discord: desktop app is web based, reports of inaccessibility on mobile Telegram: accessibility on mobile is hit and miss Google Duo/Alo: no desktop apps at all Running my own XMPP/SIP server: no XMPP clients that I know of autoread for JAWS, I am responsible for running my own servers (not in itself a bad thing but makes it harder to communicate with those not connected to my server), difficult to use for nontechnical users. Twiter direct messages: will not be realtime after streaming API is shut down, no solution for voice chat. Any ideas on other services I can investigate? Thanks in advance, Bill

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Win 10 Pro and sysprep
by Eigeldinger Simon 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hi all, Anyone done a sysprep on win 10 pro? I seem to have issues with the win 10 standard apps. I have also read a buch of stuff online but some talked about nearly taking windows apart to make a sysprep with generalizing and some where not giving hints. Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Window-Eyes 7.2 remote installation on a Windows 'Server 2008 R2 system
by Armin Moradi 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello, i have a V-Server, running Windows Server 2008 R2. I want to administrate the server via remotedesktop connection. How i install Window-Eyes, that i can establish an remote desktop connection and my window-Eyes speech of the client will read the information on the screen on the server? I mean a terminal server installation. How i can do this? Regards Armin Moradi

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PowerShell for Mac.
by Jen Bottom 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi, I thought some people on this list may be interested to know, that it is now possible to install PowerShell on MacOS and Linux. I only found this out today, the instructions for Mac are here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-azurermps-maclinu… I am now starting to see the power of working with Asure using this. I'm guessing it will be very useful for setting up test environments on Asure, if that's ever something I need to do. Best, Jen.

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Ripping DVS from a DVD
by John G Heim 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Does anybody know anything about ripping the audio descriptions (DVS) from a DVD? I am not even sure movies come with DVS. I want to listen to the "Lord Of the Rings" movies and it turns out that it is cheaper to buy the DVDs than it is to download them. If I can figure out a way to rip the aDVS track, I figure I can listen to it while my family watches the movie. They don't have to be bothered with those descriptions. -- -- John G. Heim; jheim(a)math.wisc.edu; sip://jheim@sip.linphone.org

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SDR - Software Defined radio.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello, I'm sorry. This is off topic but If there's a bunch of people who might be able to answer this it's you. I'm looking for a SDR, Software Defined Radio that is fully accessible. Well, as fully accessible as needed for most tasks anyway. Price range is about 3000 Euro. Don't want to go above that though. I'd like it to support 70c, 2m, 4m, and standard HF bands, 18m, 21m etc. Decent output would be reat as well. About 50w on 2m and at least 100w on HF. I primarily use windows but if the UI is more accessible in Linux that's fine too. Connection over Cat5 would be preferable. Alternatively, if you know of a SDR that's less than 3000 that could be made fully accessible to either Jaws or NVDA through scripting, I would be interested / happy to pay a scripter to do this. Thanks Darragh EI8IZ

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working with a mac
by Isaac 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hi, I want to install bootcamp, but there is no audio support at the installation prompts, if I integrate the drivers do you guys think it will work? Also, is there a good mac list, I use audio programs and want to see if there accessible on the mac? Thanks: Isaac

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using slack with Jaws
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Foreign language speech synthesis
by Fernando Botelho 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Hi everyone, I am part of a team developing a way to bring low-cost computing to blind kids in developing countries. One of our challenges is working with non-Western languages and alphabets for use in Africa. Right now we are working on Arabic and I was hoping to find a blind person who spoke that language and is based in the US. If you are blind and use computers in Arabic or know someone who does, please get in touch with me by e-mailing: fernando(a)f123.org Thanks, Fernando

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hexadecimal in braille?
by Samuel Barnes 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

How is hex indicated in braille? Constantly having to escape strings of digits and letters with the number and letter signs sounds super bulky. I know 8 dot braille uses dropped numbers, but that would make letters and digits harder to discern.

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