[access-uk] Re: MAGNIFICATION SOFTWARE QUESTION

Richard.

I believe Lunar is the Magnification part of Supernova, but 
without looking at the Dolphin website I cannot say absolutely 
that you can buy it without the HAL speech element.  Its bound to 
be competitive I'd say, if only because it doesn't suffer the 
usual US Dollar mark-up scam that its competitors face in the UK.

Zoomtext Level one is the obvious competitor to Lunar.  It does 
have some speech elements included.  I am certain that the 
document reader is included with this magnification package, 
which as the name suggests, will read a whole document out to 
you, and magnify the part of the screen being read at the same 
time.  It also has the option of highlighting the word being read 
simultaniously.  In my view this is very good for people with 
much less usable sight.

The level two Zoomtext includes interactive speech access to 
matterial which is much more like a screen reader, while 
retaining all the magnification options of the Level one product. 
As such, it is pretty competitively priced if this is the sort of 
interaction the nearer-blind than partially sighted user wants.

I should point out, finally, that Lunar does have 'environment' 
file support, meaning that it can be tailored to magnify 
according to the conbtext of the application being used, i.e. 
magnification tailored to the word processor, speadsheet etc in 
use..

I'd say its a pretty tough decision to make between these two 
products, but I do not think I'd be far short of the mark in 
saying that these two are the main contenders for an IT budget 
for screen magnification.

HTH.
Ray

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From: "Richard Godfrey" <richard.godfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:01 PM
Subject: [access-uk] MAGNIFICATION SOFTWARE QUESTION


I know someone whose been asked to set up a resource centre, and 
she needs
to know what's the most widely used magnification software. 
Think she wants
to know what's the best/most cost-effective package - presumably 
this comes
down to Lunar or Supernova - and I don't know anything about 
their relative
merits.  Any thoughts would be extremely helpful.  Thanks.
Richard Godfrey
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