Strategy: Using MSN to catch up on lectures
6 Keywords: MSN, Windows Live Messenger, Chat, Text, Share Files, Communication
"I do pick people’s brains when I’m on MSN, but apart from that no, and I don’t have Lime Wire. Because I have some of my course mates on my MSN contact list so I talk to them about what we’ve done if I’ve missed a lecture or something like that, about what’s been covered."
"If money and time were no object, I suppose I’d like to do a web link-up to a lecture, you know just as a one-off to see how it goes... Sort of have like a Webcam in the lecture room, doing a live web-stream, because then if you miss it, say you’re ill or something, you can then click on to it and you’re not missing the lecture as such... I think it would help everyone, but for me it’s the audio."
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"I don't use forums much - I have looked into them, but I don’t tend to comment in them that much. The screen readers etc. allow me to use NILE and MSN, so they’re kind of my eyes if you will, so to me it doesn’t blur into assistive and I can’t categorise them because it all does one job for me."
- DavidTip
NVDA screen reader works well with Windows Live Messenger and JAWS 8.0 has specific keystrokes for the various Messenger applications. HAL and Supernova also work with Live Messenger. Smart-Butler will read your messages with synthesised speech - this is not a screen reader but reads the text in the message window and is a free trial download and then one off cost $15 (USD).
