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From: Bronwyn Lapham
Date: Jun 18, 2013 5:37PM

I'm also aware of an offering in this area called ReadSpeaker (link to
readspeaker.com <http://www.readspeaker.com/>;). I'm not entirely sure how
it works, but I believe it uses server-side text-to-speech. The
controller, which I'm pretty sure used to be Flash and not keyboard
accessible, now seems to work really well.

hope that helps

Bronwyn Lapham


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web based screen readers

Don't know. I wasn't aware that there was anything a site could do short of
providing actual recordings that would provide this functionality, so when
it was mentioned I wondered how it was done. (I'm a web programmer
interested in accessibilty, but not really an expert on it.)

It does look like BrowseAloud can do something like this. Are there other
similar solutions?


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>
> >Can someone tell ignorant me how this is typically implemented? Do
> >they
> have
> >one or more recordings of the part and/or its sections pre-done? Or
> >are
> they
> >suing some sort of server-side text-to-speech technology?
> >
> >
> Are you referring to products like BrowseAloud?
> http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id€094
> I think there are others on the market like this too.