>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:40:27 +1000
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Cyrillic characters
>
>Hi,
>
>I have heard that with Arachne the text in a page can be spoken out loud,
>would
>anyone care to explain this to me? and why hasn't it been implemented in
>any other
>prominent web browsers?

Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This issue was discussed on the Arachne list. Result IIRC: Arachne 
attempts to be a graphic browser and therefore she is definitely 
not a good choice to convert pages to voice. A famous WWW browser 
with text output only (only text can be proceeded to sound) is Lynx.
You find it on the following list of software for visually impaired:

http://www.brailcom.cz/ftp/programy/dos

Regards
Christof Lange


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