[access-uk] Re: SA to Go - new online screenreader

  • From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:20:30 +0100

Hi Ray,

The answer is, it doesn't at the moment, but it should soon.  But think
about it, are you really going to walk into an Internet café with your
Braille display?  Remember folks, this is a kind of "throw away" version of
SA, so that you can get quickie access.  If you are going to connect up a
Braille display, it is not going to be so quickie <Smile>.

All the best

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ray's Home
Sent: 20 June 2007 12:27
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: SA to Go - new online screenreader

Hi, I don't know the answer to whether SATOGO has Braille support, but
I've a feeling if it hasn't  it, or the Key should have before long as
I believe it was on the list of improvements to System Access.  Maybe
Steve Nutt can be more definite.

It is very early days as yet, but I'd have thought you might get to
choose which speech engine the program uses, but this is one thing I'm
very unsure about.  Does this net based speech access program use
speech synthesis located on the server?  Or, how much does it rely on,
say, SAPPI, or what's on the host machine?  I simply don't know the
answer to this.

From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf
Of Colin Fowler


and can you replace the annoying Stephen Hawkins synthisised voice?


Colin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>


> All good news Ray,  Does it do Braille output?
>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Ray's Home

> Damon, obviously you missed the first announcement of this net based
> program when, Brian Hartgen I think, mentioned it here last week.
>
> At the moment it is a trial, and they haven't decided how much it'll
> cost to use it, but obviously it will be subscription based
eventually.
>
> I would think this is the old Serotek System Access but web based
rather
> than using the USB key to Freedom.  Woopse!
>
> The Main Menu feature on this did point out somewhere that you
should
> unload your screen reader before running  SA to go.
>
> By the way, strictly speaking SA to go isn't a screen reader as
such,
> there's no off-screen model or anything involved.
>
> I think it should be very liberating - and let's hope no one claims
> 'liberation' as a trade mark - as you can have speech access to a PC
> wherever there's an internet connection, which I'd think almost
> certainly would have to be a broadband connection.  definitely one
for
> the masses, as opposed to the working minority.
>
> Cheers,
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Damon Rose
>
>
> Am surprised no one is talking about this. It's fantastic!
> http://www.satogo.com/
> A web-based screenreader . it doesn't just make a web page talk . it
> gives intelligent access to your PC like what JAWS does.
> If you subscribe to it, you can just logon to it from any computer
> anywhere. Portability galore!
>
>
>
> Damon Rose
> Content Producer: Ouch, Ouch Podcast, See Hear.
>   www.bbc.co.uk/ouch     \    www.bbc.co.uk/seehear

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