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From: LSnider
Date: Oct 10, 2011 9:57AM

Hi Tim,

Yes, those are the ones I mean...one that I can remember offhand is
BrowseAloud. I had a feeling they would be a bit less complex, but I also
wondered how they worked. I thought they would work on the same principle,
in terms of how they 'read' the page. So I guess if I can make that
powerpoint as accessible as possible for screen readers then I should be
okay.

Thanks!

Lisa

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Tim Harshbarger <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I have seen some other applications that are supposed to convert text to
> speech for the purpose of adapting the information for someone with a
> reading -related disability. However, they don't seem to have the same
> complexity of a screen reader when it comes to picking up information from
> an application. Of course, I think most of those type of applications start
> with the assumption that they do not need to have such semantically rich
> speech output so they rely on simpler mechanisms to acquire the
> text--mechanisms that do not always work in every situation.
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