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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Mon, Apr 23 2007 8:30AM
Subject: free/OSS screen reader / speech solutions (was RE:WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12)
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> Most of the speech users I know are students or employees.
> They do much more than "read" a page. However, I believe
> that I'd love to know more about free software for our older
> group. Many in this group like to keep in touch with their
> children using email and do some on-line banking. Most of
> the computers are not Macs.

A few solutions I know of...

Full-on, open source screen reader for windows (not tested it myself, but heard good things about it): http://www.nvda-project.org/

Just for web browsing, hooks into Firefox: http://firevox.clcworld.net/ and http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/

For Linux: Orca http://live.gnome.org/Orca

P

From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Mon, Apr 23 2007 9:00AM
Subject: Re: WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12
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On 23/04/07, ******** < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Most of the speech users I know are students or employees. They do much more than "read" a page. However, I believe that I'd love to know more about free software for our older group. Many in this group like to keep in touch with their children using email and do some on-line banking. Most of the computers are not Macs.
>

One site that your users might find useful is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/index.shtml - while parts of the
site cover what the BBC is doing for disabled users (e.g. programs
that are archived with BSL signing), the majority of the site covers
what users can do for themselves - and includes Windows, Mac and
Linux.

Emma
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Blog: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/

From: zara
Date: Mon, Apr 23 2007 9:30AM
Subject: Re: free/OSS screen reader / speech solutions (was RE:WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12)
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> On 23/04/07, ******** < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> > Most of the speech users I know are students or
> employees. They do much more than "read" a page.
> However, I believe that I'd love to know more about
> free software for our older group. Many in this
> group like to keep in touch with their children using
> email and do some on-line banking. Most of the
> computers are not Macs.


You may also want to check out the Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) Web site.

http://www.oatsoft.org/

They have a huge repository of open source assistive technology.

http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/listing/Repository


--
Catherine Roy

www.catherine-roy.net

From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Mon, Apr 23 2007 9:50AM
Subject: Re: free/OSS screen reader / speech solutions (wasRE:WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12)
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> zara

> You may also want to check out the Open Source Assistive
> Technology Software (OATS) Web site.
>
> http://www.oatsoft.org/
>
> They have a huge repository of open source assistive technology.
>
> http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/listing/Repository

Oh, nice one...a very useful little resource.

P

From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2007 2:30AM
Subject: Re: free/OSS screen reader / speech solutions (was RE: WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12)
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Patrick Lauke wrote:
> Full-on, open source screen reader for windows (not tested it myself, but heard good things about it): http://www.nvda-project.org/

I have also gotten really good feedback from users about this one.

josh

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From: Derek Matthew
Date: Thu, May 17 2007 12:20PM
Subject: Re: WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 26,Issue 12 (On Training - May 17, 2007)
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I will be out of the office, on training on Thursday, May 17, 2007. I
will not be checking my e-mail until Friday, May 18, 2007.

If your Internet/Intranet request is urgent, please contact Katja
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Thanks.
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From: Debi Turner
Date: Mon, Jun 11 2007 12:20PM
Subject: Re: WebAIM-Forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 8
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Thank you for your email.
I am out of the office from Friday June 8 and I will return on Monday June 25.

d:)