Re: screen reader

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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