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Kes: note that after the TTT snippets I have posted an online article from the NFB Braille Monitor which reviews four free or low-cost screen reader.
From Top Tech Tidbits
http://www.topdotenterprises.com/tidbits.htm
1. If you have some vision, you can help solve enormous barriers to online access by the blind by joining the legion of volunteers to the Solona project. There is no commitment of time or frequency; simply, if you are willing, sometimes while you're on the computer, to take 30 seconds or so to anonymously solve a captcha barrier for an equally anonymous blind user somewhere in the world, you can play a key role. To look into it, e-mail
mysolona@gmail.com
or fill out the form at
http://solona.net/learn/contact.php
2. The RNIB has produced a guide to accessing pdf documents:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_accessingpdf.hcsp#P53_3631 <http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_accessingpdf.hcsp>
5. Serotek Tech Chat 21 discusses the New NLS digital TalkingBook Player and also the OverDrive Book Service which many public libraries use to provide downloadable audio books.
http://serotalk.com/2009/06/19/tech-chat-21-new-nls-digital-talkingbook-player-and-overdrive-book-service/
6. This week's broadcast of Innovations concerns several demonstrations from Sight City of mobility aids, braille devices and a new screen reader from Baum. Innovations is first heard on GMT Tuesday at 17:00 with repeats on Thursday at 00:00, Friday at 14:00, Sunday at 09:00 on the Global Voice.
http://www.theglobalvoice.info>.
7. Back to Serotek again: Serotek has released Accessible Event, an online platform that makes group meetings ,webinars, lectures and other events accessible to the blind, deaf, and deaf-blind. It works with presentations designed in the Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® or Adobe® Acrobat®, with those featuring displays in Microsoft Outlook®, or web pages in Serotek SAMNetâ„¢, Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7 or higher, or Mozilla® Firefox®, and with online meeting services such as Cisco WebEx, Citrix® GoToMeeting® and GoToWebinar®, Adobe Acrobat Connect®, Microsoft Live Meeting and more.
http://serotek.com/promotions1
End of TTT snippets, beginning of article on four low-cost screen reader
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NFB Braille Monitor, May 2009 Edition
Low-Cost Screen Readers
by the Access Technology Team
>From the Editor: In the following article the International Braille and
Technology Center Access
Technology Team reviews four free or low-cost screen readers: Thunder, NVDA,
System Access, and
WebAnywhere. This is what they say:
Thunder
Thunder is a free screen-access program as long as its use is personal. If
Thunder is being used in
a work setting, the company is asked to contact Screenreader.net CIC to
discuss pricing. Thunder can
be downloaded from
From Top Tech Tidbits
http://www.topdotenterprises.com/tidbits.htm
1. If you have some vision, you can help solve enormous barriers to online access by the blind by joining the legion of volunteers to the Solona project. There is no commitment of time or frequency; simply, if you are willing, sometimes while you're on the computer, to take 30 seconds or so to anonymously solve a captcha barrier for an equally anonymous blind user somewhere in the world, you can play a key role. To look into it, e-mail
mysolona@gmail.com
or fill out the form at
http://solona.net/learn/contact.php
2. The RNIB has produced a guide to accessing pdf documents:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_accessingpdf.hcsp#P53_3631 <http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_accessingpdf.hcsp>
5. Serotek Tech Chat 21 discusses the New NLS digital TalkingBook Player and also the OverDrive Book Service which many public libraries use to provide downloadable audio books.
http://serotalk.com/2009/06/19/tech-chat-21-new-nls-digital-talkingbook-player-and-overdrive-book-service/
6. This week's broadcast of Innovations concerns several demonstrations from Sight City of mobility aids, braille devices and a new screen reader from Baum. Innovations is first heard on GMT Tuesday at 17:00 with repeats on Thursday at 00:00, Friday at 14:00, Sunday at 09:00 on the Global Voice.
http://www.theglobalvoice.info>.
7. Back to Serotek again: Serotek has released Accessible Event, an online platform that makes group meetings ,webinars, lectures and other events accessible to the blind, deaf, and deaf-blind. It works with presentations designed in the Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® or Adobe® Acrobat®, with those featuring displays in Microsoft Outlook®, or web pages in Serotek SAMNetâ„¢, Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7 or higher, or Mozilla® Firefox®, and with online meeting services such as Cisco WebEx, Citrix® GoToMeeting® and GoToWebinar®, Adobe Acrobat Connect®, Microsoft Live Meeting and more.
http://serotek.com/promotions1
End of TTT snippets, beginning of article on four low-cost screen reader
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NFB Braille Monitor, May 2009 Edition
Low-Cost Screen Readers
by the Access Technology Team
>From the Editor: In the following article the International Braille and
Technology Center Access
Technology Team reviews four free or low-cost screen readers: Thunder, NVDA,
System Access, and
WebAnywhere. This is what they say:
Thunder
Thunder is a free screen-access program as long as its use is personal. If
Thunder is being used in
a work setting, the company is asked to contact Screenreader.net CIC to
discuss pricing. Thunder can
be downloaded from
