Re: Your first screen reader!
- From: Jeffrey Shockley <jawswizard@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:37:03 -0400
Hi,
That screenreader that used to be the Mac one is called Out Spoken. That
and JAWs 3.7 were my first screen readers I used.
Jeffrey On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 09:54 -0500, Curtis Delzer wrote:
> 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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