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From: Daisy
Date: Mar 23, 2006 12:10PM

I don't know the mechanics behind it but would it be possible to provide a
screenreader service in a similar model to browsercam? I see from mailing
lists that folk who wouldn't previously have dreamed of testing their
designs in anything other than IE on a PC are now realising the benefits of
testing it on other browsers and I wonder if a similar movement could happen
with a more accessible way of seeing a screenreader in action.

-Daisy


On 3/23/06, Kynn Bartlett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> On 3/23/06, Austin, Darrel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > And not to veer this too far OT, but if one does get upset with software
> > comapanies having that attitude, the solution is to volunteer some
> > energy towards one of the open source alternatives.
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> Do open source screenreaders exist?
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> Are they used by anyone?
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> It may be more productive to petition the screenreader makers which have
> products which are actually used. If there's a 1% chance you can have a
> positive effect by nagging someone via email, and affect 50% of the
> screenreader users, or there's 100% chance that you'd have a positive effect
> by working on open source code that's used by...50 people...which is the
> better choice?
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> --Kynn
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