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RE: Screen readers or testing

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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Jul 30, 2002 6:25AM


For a free (but basic) screen reader see Simply Web 2000:
http://www.econointl.com/sw/ (and I do mean basic). For Windows, requires
IE 4.01 or higher. However for an entery level tool (especially for
testing) the price is certainly right.

There are also other text to speech alternatives listed at the W3C site:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing

JF


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rhodes [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: July 30, 2002 9:08 AM
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> Subject: Screen readers or testing
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>
> I am currently trying to convert my web pages over to section 508
> compliance and have run into some problems (like everyone else - I
> assume). Is there a source of a "good" and "low cost" screen
> reader? Or, is there a source that I can use to have someone
> actually test my pages to make sure that they are accessible?
> Jeff Rhodes, Developer
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