[gui-talk] Windows 8 Narrator on Touch Screens

Rasmussen, Lloyd lras at loc.gov
Fri Jul 20 19:45:56 UTC 2012


Here is more information from the Building Windows 8 Blog.  How NVDA, Window-Eyes, JAWS, ZoomText, etc. will handle touch-screen interaction remains to be seen.  But this blog provides some information on how Microsoft is approaching the problem using its screen reader, Narrator:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/18/using-your-feedback-to-make-narrator-work-better-with-touch.aspx

I don't plan to post any more of these blogs unless something really interesting is presented.  But you can check the blog on a regular basis or set up an RSS feed for it.  

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.






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