Re: screen reader

Hi Susan,

You might want to talk to Diane Walker, who heads up a Web
Accessibility group on campus. Her address is:

dwalker@berkeley.edu

Bernie Tower
CalMail Consulting

At 4:13 PM -0700 8/25/05, Natalie Kato wrote:
>Another product to consider is a Macintosh computer as the Mac OS
>10.4 has a screen reader built in. I know of a screen reader user
>who liked the Mac built-in screen reader so much that he switched
>over from a PC. Until then he was using one of the PC screen
>readers (Jaws or Window-Eyes, I don't remember which).
>
>Natalie Kato
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>At 2:47 PM -0700 8/25/05, Aron Roberts wrote:
>>At 2:10 PM -0700 8/25/05, Susan L. Hedgpeth wrote:
>>>If you were going to buy a screen reader to use for testing the
>>>accessibility of your web pages, what one would you buy and why?
>>
>> If widespread usage factors into this decision, several articles
>>mention the most popular screen readers:
>>
>> http://www.out-law.com/page-5931 (2005)
>> "Popular screen readers include JAWS, Hal and WindowsEyes."
>>
>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/ (2003)
>> "... Jaws is the most-widely-used product ..."
>>
>> http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_news/nr_jawsjapan.asp (2001)
>> "JAWS ... has become the most widely used screen reader in the world ..."
>>
>> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/cov-access3-08-07-00.asp (2000)
>> "Of the dozen or so screen readers on the market, two have emerged
>> as clear market leaders ...: JAWS for Windows by Henter-Joyce, a
>> division of Freedom Scientific, and Window-Eyes by GW Micro Inc."
>>
>> There is also a beta extension for the Firefox browser which
>>"creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the
>>page would be read by a modern screen reader," and which by
>>implication follows JAWS's behavior:
>>
>> http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?show/fangs
>>
>>Aron Roberts
>>Workstation Software Support Group
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