[gui-talk] VoIP phones and JAWS

[David Andrews]

Steve, you are correct, Access-a-Phone is an enterprise-level 
solution to VOIP phones.  I believe it is about $1500 per 
license.  The State of MN just bought a statewide license, and it was $50,000.

Dave

At 11:42 AM 9/28/2013, you wrote:
>In addition, while the voicemail is available as an email, you can 
>still get at it on your phone by dialing a number or pressing the 
>voicemail button.  It is
>funny, but my experience with these phones is that I could happily 
>go into the web site to set up speed dialing, I can't figure out how 
>to speed dial on the
>phone.  <smile>  I have heard the product listed below works well 
>but is not cheap.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Steve Jacobson
>
>On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:33:32 -0400, Philip Ashley - BCPA wrote:
>
> >You might want to try Tenacity Operating and their Accessaphone product.
> >My employer uses the Cisco VOIP system and it works well with it.
>
> >http://accessaphone.com/
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan
> >Kelly
> >Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 4:23 PM
> >To: ' (gui-talk at nfbnet.org)'
> >Subject: [gui-talk] VoIP phones and JAWS
>
> >Our county government, of which my office is a part, has switched over to
> >VoIP for our phone services.  All caller identifications are now made
> >through the computer, and the voice mail is apparently displayed as though
> >it was an e-mail.  There is also an instant messaging feature (why we need
> >that when we have e-mail and are a fairly small building is a bit of
> >mystery to me!) that is fascinating my co-workers.  The problem is that
> >none of these features will read with JAWS, no matter what I try.  The
> >provider is completely clueless as to a solution.
>
> >Has anyone else encountered this situation?  If so, have you been able to
> >entice JAWS to read the notifications?  The service in question is through
> >Shore-tel.