[access-uk] Re: New Accessible RSS newsreader
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 08:00:35 +0100
Daman. Apparantly, the software has been updated to overcome the XP problem.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:00 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Accessible RSS newsreader
> 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
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> ----- 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
>>
>> Personal emails: Email me at
>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
>> The Accessible Friends Network website is at http://www.tafn.org.uk
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> blind/v i people via the internet with access technology and computer
> issues. Our members may also have other disabilities and any sighted members
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