[Athen] More good news for screen reader users

[Deborah Armstrong]

No change in the latest version, but my co-workers don't use the presence feature much. I mostly make calls.

Working from home now and Jabber is performing superbly!


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Todd Schwanke
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 1:40 PM
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Debee:

Thanks for posting this.  Was just working on this today and requested upgrades to our installs of Jabber.  Have you used the most recent version (12.8) for Windows and have you experienced any issues compared to other recent versions?  Seems that the Jabber app for iOS works pretty well with Voiceover.  Yes, it is indeed good that companies are making these improvements.

Best,
Todd

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 1:58 PM
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Subject: [Athen] More good news for screen reader users

We use Cisco Jabber here at work. Previously it required a set of JAWS scripts or NVDA addons which used to be hard to get; you had to get your VAR to order them and most VARS had no idea what they were! Cisco did finally post them on their accessibility page.

But now since Jabber 12.5, Cisco has modified the software so that it works with screen readers without need for special scripts or add-ons.

And it does indeed work great.

Yay! kudos to Cisco!

--Debee

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