ot: on line banking?

[Karen Lewellen]

My bank *requires* the use of jfw or window eyes only.  It is amusing that 
they  recommend editions of both that are several  editions out of date, but 
no other screen reader is allowed.
Karen

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Gaijin wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:00:36PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> firefox not withstanding, bank does not support it anyway, how are
>> those of you working largely in text managing on line banking if at
>> all?
>
> 	I'm not, basically.  My bank wouldn't allow a non-commercial web
> browser to access the accounts, so I use Firefox in Windows XP, with the
> NVDA screen reader (http://www.nvda-project.org).  I do pretty much all
> my web purchases from the Windows GUI.  The rest I normally use
> edbrowse.  Has a 2 to 4 hour learning curve to master, but once you
> start getting the hang of it and work extensively with the search
> function, once you're familiar with a particular web page layout, you
> can navigate almost as fast as if you were sighted.  Wish his Jupiter
> screen reader was a Debian package.  Karl Dahlk is pretty familiar with
> how the blind work best and fastest.
>
> 				Michael
>
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