HDMI cables carry both video and audio. You should hear your laptop speech
through the Television.

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ana G
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:03 PM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Screen Readers and HDMI Cables

Hi all,

I don't hear my screen reader when I use an HDMI cable to hook my laptop up
to a projection system in the classroom. I definitely plan to contact
Classroom Media Services for tech support, but before I do, I want to
understand how the screen reader figures into the mix.

As I've posted here, I connect my laptop to the classroom's projection
system so I can write examples while I lecture. My previous laptops all had
VGA ports so I was able to plug the classroom's VGA cable into it and press
the VGA button on the teacher's station. My students would see my screen on
the overhead projector. I would hear the screen reader from the laptop's
speakers or from my headset (if I had one plugged in).

My new laptop only has an HDMI port. Classroom Media Services told me that
would work just fine. I'd need to buy an HDMI cable, plug one end to my
laptop and the other to the teacher's station, then push the HDMI button. So
I did all that today, not knowing whether I'd hear the screen reader come
out of the laptop's speakers or the classroom's projection system.

what happened was that I did not hear the screen reader at all. Whenever the
screen was being projected, there was no speech. when there was speech, no
image was projected. I tried plugging a headset into the laptop, but I still
heard nothing. In one class, I went ahead and typed, as we did in the
typewriter era, without feedback, but it was tough so I didn't do that in
the other class.

Should I expect to hear the screen reader, or should I expect to ask about
something specific in order to hear my screen reader?

Thanks.

Ciao


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