Daman. Apparantly, the software has been updated to overcome the XP problem. Ray Personal emails: Email me at mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:00 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Accessible RSS newsreader > we've talked about this in the last week. A few of us installed the program > but discovered, if I recall, that it doesn't work on XP. > > Also currently the software is not able to facilitate podcasting. > > ...Damon > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:24 PM > Subject: [access-uk] New Accessible RSS newsreader > > >> Hope some here find this useful. Its a modified reposting of a news item > on the TAFN list. TAFN is growing and becoming a very useful source of help > as well as a virtual social group for its users. Their radio links page is > particularly good and often updated. >> >> HTH. >> Ray >> >> Personal emails: Email me at >> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx >> >> Dear listers, for your information. A great new accessible online news > reader program. >> >> "Accessible RSS 1.4" is a blind-friendly RSS Reader program produced by > the same person at Manchester University (Alasdair King) who developed the > "Webbie" alternative web browser. >> >> For the uninitiated, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a web > based information format that provides a convenient way of keeping up to > date with the very latest online news via a "feed" of news links. Many > mainstream news sources and online publishers (including many British > newspapers) provide free RSS news feeds, & one can even go to sites such as > www. feedster. com which offers a searchable index of over 6 million feeds. > Not only is RSS "not going away" but it is growing rapidly across the > internet, as an up-to-the-minute news delivery technology, with readers > available for almost every operating system, including portable devices. & > at the cutting edge of it is a system called "podcasting" that allows audio > programs to be directly downloaded to MP3 players over the net on an > automated basis. It is therefore quite important that there is an accessible > reader program to make RSS directly useful to blind/v i people. >> >> Which brings me back to Accessible RSS 1.4. This is a convenient and fully > accessible program that is FREE and easy to install, & is a great way to get > started on plugging in to and reading RSS feeds. It comes with a few RSS > news feeds pre-configured, including the BBC and The Guardian. & it's quite > easy to add new feeds of your own choice to get the very latest news from a > variety of sources on a whole range of topics. The program loads quicker > than most browsers, weighing less than 3 megabytes to download and works > well with JAWS, HAL, Windoweyes and Zoomtext. >> >> >> >> Once the program is started simply use up/down cursors to browse > headlines, and press ENTER on any headline to open the article. And adding > new RSS feeds is about as easy as adding bookmarks to any popular web > browser. >> >> I recommend it! >> >> Leon Gilbert >> >> PS: If anyone does download and try it, why not plug in to the Assistive > Technology RSS Feed at ACB Radio, for the latest assistive tech news? Simply > press ALT W then A, name the bookmark, then copy and paste the following URL > into Accessible RSS to do so:- >> >> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/xml.php? tablename=news >> >> If anyone wants help with this program, or some more URL's to great RSS > news feeds, please contact me off list, or have a chat with me on Ventrilo > about it. >> >> >> >> UPDATE >> >> Okay, version 1.4 of this program was proving to be buggy for Windows XP > users. So I contacted the developer Alasdair King, and he's fixed the bugs > and updated it to version 1.5. If anyone has already installed Version 1.4 > you can overinstall it with version 1.5 and it should solve the problem, > twhen you press enter on a headline it should launch the pertaining article. >> >> When it works this program is very good indeed! & the download link for > the new version is below. All the best - Leon >> >> http://www.webbie.org.uk/download/AccessibleRSSInstaller.exe >> >> >> >> >> >> The Accessible Friends Network website is at http://www.tafn.org.uk >> >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a message to tafn-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject or body 'unsubscribe'. The Accessible Friends Network website > is at http://www.tafn.org.uk >> >> TAFN is a group of blind/v i friends, helping each other and any other > blind/v i people via the internet with access technology and computer > issues. 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