Topic by cw 2009-01-07 00:42:13

  • cw
  • Judge of the day
  • Offline
  • From: Middle Earth
  • Registered: 2007-07-03
  • Posts: 2,504
  • User Karma: 36

There's a IM client called pidgin. It allows use of most, if not all, of the major IM networks in one app. has anyone got it to work with jaws, and how? Pidgin can be found here.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
DropBox Referral

Quote Post 1

Thumbs up

Reply by CJ 2009-01-08 23:27:52

  • CJ
  • red potter
  • Offline
  • From: New Jersey
  • Registered: 2007-04-13
  • Posts: 796

I think moranda IM does the same thing, and I kind of remember a blind person telling me they were using it
maybe andy on this forum?

Connor

Quote Post 2

Thumbs up

Reply by andy smith 2009-01-08 23:39:30

  • Registered: 2007-03-10
  • Posts: 1,557
  • User Karma: 1

Nah, never used it. I prefer to use the clients directly, but I'm only on one at a time so I don't get like 9 sounds yalping at me, "you got a message! You got a message!"... So as not to lose my sanity I use one at a time. I tried MirandaIM but found it to be nightmare. It kept minimizing to the system tray and none of its functions seemed to work right with JAWS.

Quote Post 3

Thumbs up

Reply by CJ 2009-01-10 23:23:18

  • CJ
  • red potter
  • Offline
  • From: New Jersey
  • Registered: 2007-04-13
  • Posts: 796

oh.. my mistake then

Connor

Quote Post 4

Thumbs up

Reply by cw 2009-01-11 15:17:36

  • cw
  • Judge of the day
  • Offline
  • From: Middle Earth
  • Registered: 2007-07-03
  • Posts: 2,504
  • User Karma: 36

I have that very problem with mirandaIM. glad I wasn't missing something. Guess I'll just use each client as I need it.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
DropBox Referral

Quote Post 5

Thumbs up

Reply by Aminiel 2009-01-18 18:50:53

  • From: Switzerland
  • Registered: 2008-12-24
  • Posts: 638
  • User Karma: 54

I have miranda IM and I have no problem using it with jaws.
Miranda is much better than WLM even if you use it only for MSN : it is much, much, much lighter. WLM is a gas factory (Translation note : "usine

There are 10 kinds of people : those who know binary, and those who don't.

Aminiel's Website

Quote Post 6

Thumbs up

Reply by bat 2009-01-19 18:30:47

  • bat
  • Shades of newbie
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2009-01-19
  • Posts: 1

Pidgin will not work with Jaws in the forseeable future because it uses gtk which doesn't have any accessibility features in windows.

Quote Post 7

Thumbs up

Reply by cw 2009-01-20 03:51:10

  • cw
  • Judge of the day
  • Offline
  • From: Middle Earth
  • Registered: 2007-07-03
  • Posts: 2,504
  • User Karma: 36

That's ashame about the gtk thing. I have a brother that was surprised to hear that pidgin wouldn't work with jaws. I guess with him, if it's text and the text is inside text boxes, then jaws must beable to read it. With MirandaIM, how do I know who's online and who's not. I would also like to divide Some of my friends up in groups. Yahoo messenger is much better then windows live messenger about not filling the screen with crap that I wouldn't want to click on the first place, not that YM doesn't put up adds.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
DropBox Referral

Quote Post 8

Thumbs up

Reply by Aminiel 2009-01-20 10:09:33

  • From: Switzerland
  • Registered: 2008-12-24
  • Posts: 638
  • User Karma: 54

For miranda, to have access to the contact list, you should set the classic skin. It's easier. Groups are supported too, and you can sort your contacts by group, protocol, alphabetically and more.
The biggest problem with miranda is that there is no tutorial and it's a bit difficult to get to know the program. There are many options and it's not well organized.


If pidgin uses GTK or QT or WXWidget, yes, it infortunately definitely wont work with jaws. These GUI libraries are not very well accessible, or even often not accessible at all.
FS should make an effort to support GTK and/or QT, but since these libraries are free software and mostly used by free softwares, they simply ignore because there is too few money to win. They prefer concentrate on office 2007, IE8, and windows 7.

There are 10 kinds of people : those who know binary, and those who don't.

Aminiel's Website

Quote Post 9

Thumbs up

Reply by ItsAConspiraZ 2009-01-24 06:51:47

  • From: Brooklyn, New York
  • Registered: 2005-03-08
  • Posts: 390

Pidgin is perfectly accessible under linux with Orca.

I've used Miranda with JFW in the past. Once you set up hotkeys to bring it up from the background (s well as IMs as they come up) it's a lot cooler and easier.

James

ItsAConspiraZ's Website

Quote Post 10

Thumbs up

Reply by Aminiel 2009-01-24 14:33:02

  • From: Switzerland
  • Registered: 2008-12-24
  • Posts: 638
  • User Karma: 54

Pidgin is perfectly accessible under linux with Orca.

I would like to switch to linux, but until now I haven't been convainced enough by orca. Too buggy, much too slow, and espeak is awful.

I've used Miranda with JFW in the past. Once you set up hotkeys to bring it up from the background (s well as IMs as they come up) it's a lot cooler and
easier.

Yes, the shortcut to show directly the contacts is very useful. IL personnaly set it to Ctrl + the key  next to "1" on the left.

There are 10 kinds of people : those who know binary, and those who don't.

Aminiel's Website

Quote Post 11

Thumbs up

Reply by ItsAConspiraZ 2009-01-25 21:20:46

  • From: Brooklyn, New York
  • Registered: 2005-03-08
  • Posts: 390

I've been using linux and mac exclusively over the past couple of weeks (mac since last year and linux on and off since march 08).  Orca is a little laggy, especially when using the default gnome-speech espeak driver.  Speech-dispatcher speeds it up a considerable amount... but introduces more bugs (as SD is still quite buggy).  I got a new netbook and installed easypeasy (a distro specifically for the Eee) but find that the fan blows all the time and specific tasks (using the internet, navigating in trees for some reason particularly the one in pidgin) are sometimes uncomfortably slow.  Ubuntu runs much more smoothly on my old Toshiba M55 even though the specs of the two machines are comparable (almost the same).  Maybe solid state was a bad choice.  New topic perhaps>

P.S.,
I like espeak.

P.P.S.,
I'm writing this from the Mac.

James

ItsAConspiraZ's Website

Quote Post 12

Thumbs up