I think to make these free screen readers better they'll have to start using vide chaining and video intercept like window-eyes and jaws do.
Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Azabat (Steve Crawford)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen reader > Hi Sky, > > I can't remember off hand where the review was. I listened to a demo of it > on VIP Conduit a few weeks back and it was well received. I know it has > its > critics because it obviously hasn't got the power of commercial screen > readers. I looked at writing a screen reader a few months ago and made a > start on it but then I found Thunder and figured that my version was > unlikely to be any better and there was no way I could compete with their > price, so there was little point continuing. > > Thunder may not be very powerful but my hunch is that people who may once > have bought Guide, which is an all-in-one package (word-processor and > email) > for computer beginners, would be better off using Thunder and Wordpad and > Outlook Express. > > The other thing about Thunder is that it was written in Visual Basic and I > think I read somewhere they were looking to work with developers to > improve > the product. > > Anyway, I really just mentioned Thunder because it's already out there and > free and clearly Tom has his hands full with Monty and Raceway. > > Cheers, > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Sky Taylor Mundell > Sent: 18 February 2007 17:23 > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen reader > > > Hey Steve, where is the review of Thunder located on? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Azabat (Steve Crawford)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:17 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Screen reader > > >> Yeah, and what about the tutorial you promised on writing an Asteroids >> game? >> >> Sky, there are some free screenreaders out there already. One that got a >> pretty good review recently was Thunder, which you can download at >> http://www.screenreader.net/index.php?section=Thunder. It's not just for >> XP >> and works for Win2K as well. >> >> Steve >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
