If you happen to use Firefox, The Sage II plug-in makes a nice RSS reader. It can be configured to show only unread feeds in the left pane, which you can arrow through and press Enter to bring up a web page that shows the articles with summaries and for many blogs full article content. All feeds that are pulled in are displayed, but when you get to one that was previously fetched Window-Eyes will report a visited link. It's not perfect but for me it was the best solution I've run across. A couple of annoyances are that there are extra links that you probably don't care to use at the end of each summary, so you can't simply tab through the articles. My solution is a combination of the H key to move to the next header and tab to hear the link. Then I arrow down or read to end depending on whether I know there is full content if I want to hear more. Also, there's no immediate jump back to the side bar to read for the next feed. Depending on how your Firefox installation is configured, it will take at least two presses of the F6 key to get back to the feed list.
Another solution that worked very well for me is http://www.bloglines.com, but last time I was there they were working on a beta and the last time I tried the beta it was not nearly as accessible as their old site. That probably means it's not a good long term solution assuming the old site is still available, but the advantage is you can keep up with your feeds wherever you are. Larry From: Sam bushman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: rss reader for we Any ideas for a speech friendly rss reader? Thanks Sam If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
