Thanks, also, for the explanation.  Just started playing with Chrome myself,
wondering if there are any extensions that do in fact enhance the web
experience with VO?


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Chromevox

Chromevox is Google's own screen reader that runs inside of Chrome. It 
uses the OSX speech engine but otherwise does everything itself. Some 
folks find they can navigate better with ChromeVox but it means learning 
keyboard controls for yet another screen reader. It also means you have 
to turn VO off when in Chrome with Chromevox running or you'll get 
everything double announced and have keyboard conflicts. If you decide 
you need to do something outside of Chrome, such as pull an URL from an 
email it gets pretty messy. You would need to turn VO back on, go into 
email to copy that URL, go back into Chrome, and turn VO back off again. 
This is the general pain of self-voicing apps on a system that already 
has a dandy screen reader. Maybe you can more easily navigate complex 
pages in Chrome with Chromevox but it's a lot of rigamarole to deal with 
two screen readers. If you live within the Chrome browser though it 
could be a reasonable alternative.

CB

On 2/21/12 11:29 PM, ezzie bueno wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> What exactly is Chromevox? I use Google Chrome.  Is Chromevox 
> absolutely necessary?
>
> Thanks,
> Ezzie Ez Bueno
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