- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:04:28 -0500 (EST)
- To: Craig Wilson <ccwilson@e-strats.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hello Craig! I took a look at your web site and the accessibility portion has all you really need in the way of guidelines and being on this list will yeild for you several individuals with special browsing and other interface issues. In addition, I cannot resist pointing you to another person with your same name at a company which has done a lot of work in the field of access on and off the web. Henter-joyce Inc. Has produced most likely the most versatile general text to braille and speech pc interface to daye. Their sales manager shares your name if I remember correctly. Our goal which you should keep in mind though is to produce a method of page authoring and interfacing that is independant of what you use for that purpose. If I use netscape or ie or xyz browser, I should be able to access all components of a site with no help from my aid except for that which is normally rendered that being to make it possible for me to interface with the document or applete in my own special way. you can reach henter joyce however at: http://www.hj.com or by contacting: sales@hj.com I believe they have a timed evaluation package such that it will expire on a given date. Thanks for asking. On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Craig Wilson wrote: _Hello, _ _We are a new Web development company and we want to be able to offer _accessible versions of all sites we create. There don't seem to be a lot of _developers who are explicitly including this in their development services. _ _In order to do this, we want to start down the path of testing pages with a _screen reader. Eventually we would like to develop the capability of _performing usability testing on multiple platforms with a variety of _software. We are, however, still on the learning curve about many of the _accessibility issues and are not in the position at the moment to make the _kind of financial investment we would ultimately like to make. _ _Can anyone sugggest: _ _What would be a good first purchase of screen reading software/synthesizer _hardware for the Windows platform? _ _Any resources we might consult that would give us access to reviews and/or _user feedback about such products? Data about product useage? _ _Any other list or forum through which we might communicate with screen _reader users? _ _Thanks in advance, _Craig Wilson _================================ _Craig Wilson e-strats, inc. _415-434-2728 San Francisco, CA _ http://www.e-strats.com _================================ _ -- Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 poehlman@clark.net ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman Dynamic solutions Inc. Best of service for your Small Business network Needs Http://www.dnsolutions.com
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