- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:00:39 -0500
- To: "Phillip Pi" <philpi@apu.edu>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
You can find lots on this in the mail archives but to state it again, unless you *_know_* how to make use of a screen reader even hpr in every day use, you can be terribly misslead by your results. I recommend no screen reader for development or all but final checking but instead encourage good practice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Pi" <philpi@apu.edu> To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: RE: Screen readers Harry, I was looking for screen readers that could read Web pages online. I am just curious how these things work and sound like :). JAWS seems a good program to try. Thank you for the URL and information. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Harry Woodrow wrote: > Home page Reader is nice and rather effective but it comes at a cost. Many > (Most?) blind people who use the web seem to use screen readers which can > read the text off the screen but with some constraints. A very basic reader > which makes you cut and paste your text into it is Read Please from > http://readplease.com/ which is free for the basic version. This will give > some idea of how text will sound. > > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of Kynn Bartlett > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:21 AM > To: Phillip Pi > Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Re: ASCII Ribbon Campaign > > > At 11:12 AM 10/30/2001 , Phillip Pi wrote: > >Kynn, is there a freeware version or even an open source version? I don't > >want to use it if it is limited (e.g. short amount of time). Thanks. > > Nope. Most screenreaders cost big $$$ -- Jaws, for example is > something like $700 or $800, or $1200 or so if you're using Windows > NT/2000. You can find things like IBM's Home Page Reader for a more > affordable $150 -- and I recommend it to EVERY professional web > developer -- but I don't know if it will read your email messages > for you. (It might!) > > You can try TV Raman's EmacSpeak, which is an Emacs-based application > (and which is free and might even be open source) to read web pages > out loud and maybe even other stuff. It's also notable for having > aural CSS support, but I haven't gotten it running myself so I can't > vouch for it. > > Many operating systems have the ability to speak things, if you figure > out how to make it work -- e.g. recent versions of Windows, or MacOS > for a long time now. Actually getting content of an email message > read out loud may be tricky, though, as these "mini-screenreaders" > are quite limited in functionality.
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