[Athen] Recommendations for tablet computers

[Sean Keegan]

…and next time, I will pay more attention to my inbox before hitting send. What Dan said!  <grin>

Take care,
sean


On Jun 27, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Dan Comden <danc at uw.edu> wrote:


> Having just had my hands this week on a number of these at the same time, I'd have to go for the Surface Pro. Even though it's Windows 8, it will have a lot of built-in and other AT availability superior to any of the Android-based options. I was even able to run NatSpeak v11 on the one I had for a day.

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> More so than any other tablet, it's possible to do real work, easy task switching, and support for mainstream productivity apps (i.e. Office) is already there. Plug in a standard keyboard and it's nearly a "real" computer.

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> Even though it's Windows 8.

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> (I'd still rather have a real laptop)

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> -*- Dan

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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Teresa Haven <Teresa.Haven at nau.edu> wrote:

> Greetings, all.  A colleague of mine has gotten funding to purchase both an iPad and another tablet device (Windows or Android based) for accessibility testing purposes.  She would like suggestions (with reasons!) for what Android or Windows tablet device to purchase.  We know that students are coming to college with a plethora of devices these days; if you had to pick just one (aside from an iPad) to have in your toolkit, to use in order to learn more about its possible usability, what one would you pick and why? 

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> Thanks in advance,

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> Teresa

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> Teresa Haven, Ph.D.

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> Accessibility Analyst

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> Northern Arizona University

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