What about NVDA and System Access? Chris Hallsworth e-mail and Facebook: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266 On 23/01/2010 22:02, Harmony Neil wrote:
How about Hal? I don't use it because I much prefer JAWS, but I know a few people who swear by it. From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik Sent: 23 January 2010 9:47 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Screen Reader Compatibility Thanks for your thoughts folks, As for JAWS, the school for the blind we're working with uses it, so no choice there. It's a pretty common screen reader anyway, so it seemed the logical first choice. Although, technically, we wrote a self voicing library for windows first through SAPI. JAWS is just a compatibility issue and creating code that works with it doesn't take that much time, as Sappy is ultimately neutral to platform and screen reader. As for ORCA, I noticed it was only compatible with Gnome, but not KDE. Does that matter to anyone? So our order might then be: Jaws Voice Over (has to come second because one of our testers is using it) Orca Windows Eyes Any others we should consider? And finally, we're considering writing a JNI wrapper for our tool that will auto-detect platform/screen reader and automatically adapt the TTS engine to its whim in java accordingly. It pretty much works right now in NetBeans (although isn't available yet), but we can make a little JAR outside of netbeans if folks want to use it in their projects. That useful to any java programmers out there? Free and open source, of course. Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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