Re: screen reader

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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Received on Thu Aug 25 14:48:34 2005