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Re: Now that IBM will no longer be supporting Home Page Readerwhat else to use or recommend.

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Nov 9, 2006 1:00PM

You may want to look at Firevox:

http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

or an accessibility toolbar like the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:14:38 -0600
>From: "Moore, Michael" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Now that IBM will no longer be supporting Home Page Readerwhat else to use or recommend.
>To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >, "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>For small groups who can live with a bit of a loss in productivity the
>demo version of JAWS will run for 40 min intervals for a period of one
>year, then you have to down load a new copy. The biggest pain is that
>you have to reboot after 40 mins if you wish to continue testing.
>However if your organization is medium to large in size, purchasing a
>full blown version of assistive technology products should be a normal
>cost of doing business. After all, compared to the price of Dreamweaver
>Studio, Adobe Creative Suite and other assorted hardware and software
>that many development groups use, < $1000 US for a full blown screen
>reader to add to the testing lab seems like a reasonable business
>expense.
>
>Mike
>
>