[vicsireland] A free, open source, Windows desktop screen reader
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:15:07 -0000
Information about a free, open source, Windows desktop screen reader can be
located at
http://www.nvaccess.org/nvda/
PLEASE read about it however before downloading or trying it. Although it is
still in development stage, the author, one Michael Curran, claims good things
for it. So, now it looks as if the gates of choice are beginning to open, and
the extensively steeled Gates of Bill et Microsoft and the commercial screen
reader companies are slowly being fenestrated, from the bottom up. Thunder is
another example, so now there are two known 'freebies'. Nothing at all is
guarantted with NVDA, of course, but I thought the information of interest to
pass on in light of discussions and plaints present past about the costs of
good screen -reading programs.
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