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From: Stacey E Kimmel-Smith
Date: Thu, Aug 26 2021 8:28AM
Subject: What screen-readers highlight words as they are read?
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Hi,
We have a client who prefers Edge because it highlights words as it reads
(read-aloud feature). It does not appear that Acrobat Reader or NVDA offer
this natively? Are there other options? Thanks in advance!
Stacey
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From: glen walker
Date: Thu, Aug 26 2021 9:54AM
Subject: Re: What screen-readers highlight words as they are read?
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With NVDA, you can go into preferences > settings > vision and check the
"Highlight navigator object" checkbox and then when you press Ins+DownArrow
to read the entire page, you'll see a red box outlining what is being
read. This will work no matter what browser you're using.
From: Stacey E Kimmel-Smith
Date: Mon, Aug 30 2021 8:22AM
Subject: Re: What screen-readers highlight words as they are read?
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Thanks All! This student was looking for word-by-word highlighting (which
apparently MS Edge does) -- Chromevox and NVDA don't do word-by-word from
what I can tell, the highlighting is more block or sentence.
I did find a product naturalreaders.com that does exactly what she wants
and the interface is lovely. She is a student so a limited version is free
for her use.
Anyone have knowledge of this software? Are there any gotchas? It seems
there is an edu version where a school admin can provision students with
accounts.
Thanks!
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:54 AM glen walker < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> With NVDA, you can go into preferences > settings > vision and check the
> "Highlight navigator object" checkbox and then when you press Ins+DownArrow
> to read the entire page, you'll see a red box outlining what is being
> read. This will work no matter what browser you're using.
> > > > >
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Library & Technology Services, Lehigh University
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From: Jeffrey Stark
Date: Mon, Aug 30 2021 8:56AM
Subject: Re: What screen-readers highlight words as they are read?
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What you want is a multimodal document reader. Microsoft has the immersive reader, text aloud is even better because it can work everywhere and windows. On a mobile phone you have tools like voice dream reader and voice aloud reader.
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Thanks All! This student was looking for word-by-word highlighting (which
apparently MS Edge does) -- Chromevox and NVDA don't do word-by-word from
what I can tell, the highlighting is more block or sentence.
I did find a product naturalreaders.com that does exactly what she wants
and the interface is lovely. She is a student so a limited version is free
for her use.
Anyone have knowledge of this software? Are there any gotchas? It seems
there is an edu version where a school admin can provision students with
accounts.
Thanks!
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:54 AM glen walker < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> With NVDA, you can go into preferences > settings > vision and check the
> "Highlight navigator object" checkbox and then when you press Ins+DownArrow
> to read the entire page, you'll see a red box outlining what is being
> read. This will work no matter what browser you're using.
> > > > >
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Stacey Kimmel-Smith
Assistant Director, Client Services
Library & Technology Services, Lehigh University
610-758-4768 = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/staceyk/
From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Mon, Aug 30 2021 9:44AM
Subject: Re: What screen-readers highlight words as they are read?
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I used to use a program called Vortex (24 years ago) it was free but I don't know if it is still around. Then I moved to Zoom Text (up until 20 years ago when I went full on screen reader). ZoomText isn't free but it's a powerful tool for sure.
Both Vortex and ZoomText were great for highlighting words while reading. I especially liked that it auto scrolled so the word that was being read stayed in the middle of the screen.
Hope you find what you are looking for!
Best,
David