[access-uk] Re: New Accessible RSS newsreader
- From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 05:00:50 +0100
we've talked about this in the last week. A few of us installed the program
but discovered, if I recall, that it doesn't work on XP.
Also currently the software is not able to facilitate podcasting.
...Damon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:24 PM
Subject: [access-uk] New Accessible RSS newsreader
> Hope some here find this useful. Its a modified reposting of a news item
on the TAFN list. TAFN is growing and becoming a very useful source of help
as well as a virtual social group for its users. Their radio links page is
particularly good and often updated.
>
> HTH.
> Ray
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> Personal emails: Email me at
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
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> Dear listers, for your information. A great new accessible online news
reader program.
>
> "Accessible RSS 1.4" is a blind-friendly RSS Reader program produced by
the same person at Manchester University (Alasdair King) who developed the
"Webbie" alternative web browser.
>
> For the uninitiated, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a web
based information format that provides a convenient way of keeping up to
date with the very latest online news via a "feed" of news links. Many
mainstream news sources and online publishers (including many British
newspapers) provide free RSS news feeds, & one can even go to sites such as
www. feedster. com which offers a searchable index of over 6 million feeds.
Not only is RSS "not going away" but it is growing rapidly across the
internet, as an up-to-the-minute news delivery technology, with readers
available for almost every operating system, including portable devices. &
at the cutting edge of it is a system called "podcasting" that allows audio
programs to be directly downloaded to MP3 players over the net on an
automated basis. It is therefore quite important that there is an accessible
reader program to make RSS directly useful to blind/v i people.
>
> Which brings me back to Accessible RSS 1.4. This is a convenient and fully
accessible program that is FREE and easy to install, & is a great way to get
started on plugging in to and reading RSS feeds. It comes with a few RSS
news feeds pre-configured, including the BBC and The Guardian. & it's quite
easy to add new feeds of your own choice to get the very latest news from a
variety of sources on a whole range of topics. The program loads quicker
than most browsers, weighing less than 3 megabytes to download and works
well with JAWS, HAL, Windoweyes and Zoomtext.
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> Once the program is started simply use up/down cursors to browse
headlines, and press ENTER on any headline to open the article. And adding
new RSS feeds is about as easy as adding bookmarks to any popular web
browser.
>
> I recommend it!
>
> Leon Gilbert
>
> PS: If anyone does download and try it, why not plug in to the Assistive
Technology RSS Feed at ACB Radio, for the latest assistive tech news? Simply
press ALT W then A, name the bookmark, then copy and paste the following URL
into Accessible RSS to do so:-
>
> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/xml.php? tablename=news
>
> If anyone wants help with this program, or some more URL's to great RSS
news feeds, please contact me off list, or have a chat with me on Ventrilo
about it.
>
>
>
> UPDATE
>
> Okay, version 1.4 of this program was proving to be buggy for Windows XP
users. So I contacted the developer Alasdair King, and he's fixed the bugs
and updated it to version 1.5. If anyone has already installed Version 1.4
you can overinstall it with version 1.5 and it should solve the problem,
twhen you press enter on a headline it should launch the pertaining article.
>
> When it works this program is very good indeed! & the download link for
the new version is below. All the best - Leon
>
> http://www.webbie.org.uk/download/AccessibleRSSInstaller.exe
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