Re: Your first screen reader!

Hi Curtis and all,
I forgot to mention that I also used a Mac when I was still teaching in the mid nineteen nineties. The screen reader was called outSPOKEN; it was very similar to JFW and, in my opinion, was ahead of its time, but so was the Macintosh Operating System (in my humble opinion). 

   Don
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:54 AM
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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