RE: Your first screen reader!
- From: "Kimberly Thurman" <kimberlythurman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:17:06 -0400
Ditto on the Vocal Eyes and A S A P. Then JAWS 3.7 with win 98 and now all
the way up to the current build of JAWS with Vista. We've come a long way
baby! (Big grin!)
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Curtis Delzer
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:55 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Your first screen reader!
Mine was Vocal-Eyes on a dos system, then, ASAP, which stands for
automatic screen access program, and in Windows, first was Slimware
Window Bridge, then Window-Eyes, and Jfw now. Use both.
Never did use HAL much in windows, though I remember trying another
one for DOS, used tones to denote the position of the cursor on the
screen, quite clever in a lot of ways, can't think of it's name
though I think it was developed in Berkeley, CA, by a man for his
daughter? Didn't Keynote or something similar have a screen reader,
and there was the IBM screen reader too? Artic Vision Business
Vision, come to think of it was my first screen reader, but even
before that, my very first exposure to any computer was a Mac,
running the screen reader for the Mac at the time, can't exactly
remember the name. That was 19 years ago now.
Curtis Delzer
At 06:09 PM 5/30/2008, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Without getting off topic regarding Jaws, I'd be interested to know what
>your first memories of screen readers are. Mine begin with Jaws 3.2 on an
>old Gateway PC back in 1997. Good oal Doubletalk PC couldn't even handle
the
>Romance languages for heaven's sake!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben
>
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