Comparison of screen readers from Wikipedia

February 1st, 2011 by Rebecca

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Screen readers are a form of assistive technology.

Contents

1 Contemporary screen readers
2 Unfinished Screenreader Projects
3 Historical interest
4 Software aids for people with reading difficulties
5 References

Contemporary screen readers

Screen reader
Creator
Supported platforms
License
Notes

95Reader
SSCT
Windows
Commercial
Japanese screen reader

Blindows
BAUM Retec (formerly Audiodata)
Windows
Commercial
Supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and [...]

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Refreshable Braille display

September 1st, 2010 by Rebecca

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Refreshable Braille display

Braille display combined with a keyboard.

A refreshable Braille display or Braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device for displaying Braille characters, usually by means of raising dots through holes in a flat surface. Blind computer users, who cannot use a normal computer monitor, use it to read text output. Speech [...]

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Rebecca liberated me from the indignity of being relegated to the group of the unteachable

July 22nd, 2007 by Rebecca

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Learning to use the computer is difficult enough for anyone with good vision talk less of me with blind eye and partial vision in the other. I was lucky to have Rebecca as my coach who liberated me from the indignity of being relegated to the group of the unteachable. Rebecca’s vast experience in the [...]

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