[bcab] Re: WebAnywhere: a free screen reader accessed via the

Hi Guys,
So as far as I'm aware WebAnywhere is for use on machines - mainly public machines when there is no access to USB or CD for security purpose; and for situations such as kiosks etc. It works by generating Speech for an http session on the server side and encoding it as MP3 - then sends it to the client via JavaScript calls coded into the page by a proxy. It's some pretty cool Web Engineering especially because the latency is not noticeable as their encode and send algorithms are leading edge. 

Cheers
Si.

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On 25 Apr 2008, at 13:03, Michael Whapples wrote:


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 02:03 -0400, BCAB_Digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Subject: [bcab] Re: WebAnywhere: a free screen reader accessed via the 
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:55:20 +0100
From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

SaToGo isn't open source no.
NVDA is open source and while it isn't web based it is portable so can 
be run from a usb stick or CD so can easily auto start without any
keyboard interaction at all.
http://www.nvda-project.org/
WebAnywhere is opensource as well, although the indications from what I 
have read is that it hasn't always.


Would be nice if nvda and web anywhere worked together to save
duplicating work.

Might be good, but that is one of the advantages of open source, they
don't need to actually work together, the other can always learn by
looking at the code and taking anything that looks good (I don't know
which open source license WebAnywhere is under, and it might make it
harder for the two to mix if it is GPL incompatible). This then means
that they may go slightly different ways, but not actually be creating
all the stuff themselves. Yes it is better if they work together to help 
understand what they are trying to do, but it isn't as necessary as it
might be for closed source software.



Adrian Higginbotham
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