[Athen] Accessible Instant Messaging Client? PeopleSoft/Oracle Access?

[Jennifer Sutton]

Hello:

For Instant Messaging, Instantbird for the PC may be adequate.  It's 
free and open source. Another choice (but a little more complex to 
set up, in my view) would be Miranda.

And if this person is a Mac user, I believe ATIUM would work.

I hope this helps.

Best,
Jennifer

At 01:21 PM 8/29/2013, you wrote:

>Hello,

>

>WE have a new blind staff member in our Graduate School who uses 

>Jaws. The IT person for the school and the university have been 

>trying to learn more about accessibility related to the following items.

>

>1. PeopleSoft  (student information) tool: I've spoken with students 

>of mine who have said that PeopleSoft is workable to a certain 

>point, then they just prefer a sighted person. If I'm not mistaken, 

>we were able to get Jaws and PeopleSoft to play nice up to the point 

>a person needed to search for a class or a grade or whatever. This 

>is, of course, several versions ago.

>

>The staff member is fairly adept at Jaws and yet is unable to get 

>into the screen past the login. She has tried the usual keystroke 

>combinations and can't get anything going. I've advised the Grad 

>School's tech person to contact the company, but in the meantime, 

>thought I'd see what others had to say.

>

>AND

>

>Instant Messaging Client. The school currently uses an open source 

>tool - Jabber. Sending out messages isn't the issue, it's the 

>incoming ones that won't read. Anyone know of Jaws accessible IM options?

>

>

>Thanks and Happy Labor Day and Happy start of the fall semester.

>--

>Peace.

>

>Jean Salzer, Sr. Counselor

>BVI Program/Alternative Text Coordinator

>Accessibility Resource Center

>UW-Milwaukee

>414-229-5660, Mitchell Hall B16

>

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