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

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From: Phil Teare
Date: Nov 9, 2006 1:30PM

VPC and VMWare virtualization is also free, and drastically reduces
reebootime, if your hardware can take it (rule of thumb, PCs five years old
or less can handle it).

It also means you can install and then launch many versions of browsers with
various security settings, and/or service packs on various OSs at the click
of an icon.

The set up is time consuming, but if your anything like me, you'll have
saved your self a headache well within a month. Buy which time you've sunk
the 'cost' of the afternoon it'll take you to install everything.

I highly recommend this option, though watch out for licenseing issues.

Phil Teare
Lead Developer,

www.talklets.com





On 09/11/06, Jon Gunderson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> You may want to look at Firevox:
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> http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/
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> or an accessibility toolbar like the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility
> Extension
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> http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
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> Jon
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> ---- 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> >
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> >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
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Sandra Clark
> >Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:49 AM
> >To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> >Subject: [WebAIM] Now that IBM will no longer be supporting Home Page
> >Readerwhat else to use or recommend.
> >
> >I've been recommending Home Page Reader (and using it myself) as a lower
> >cost way of testing accessibility features since the latest version came
> >out. Now that is no longer going to be possible what are other avenues?
> >Many of the people I train or consult with do not have the budget to be
> >able to accommodate Jaws or Window-Eyes for testing purposes.
> >
> >Any suggestions I can look into?
> >
> >Entry noting that "Homepage Reader is dead"
> >http://ability.aol.com/ability/index.php?ID=118&;catID=7
> >
> >Sandra Clark
> >=============================> >http://www.shayna.com
> >Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility
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> Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
> Director of IT Accessibility Services
> Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
> and
> Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
> Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)
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> Voice: (217) 244-5870
> Fax: (217) 333-0248
> Cell: (217) 714-6313
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