Hello everybody Some time ago, I bought Gordon a USB thumb drive which contains InfoVox 3.0 for Windows and 3 licenses. This is a very interesting device because it literally gives you accessibility on any Windows-based computer without the need to install any screen-reader on to the local machine.
The device comes with the InfoVox voices in the languages or language of your choice. We have British English and US English licensed. All of the other voices are there but won't work unless you buy additional licenses. The device is seen by Windows as a standard thumb drive and contains auto-run scripts so that it starts talking as soon as you plug it in, if you have auto-play enabled on your machine. Therefore, you have accessibility absolutely everywhere just by plugging in the drive to a free USB port. NVDA runs directly from the USB drive but, if you prefer it, the free "Thunder" screen-reader is also supplied on the thumb drive. You can control all that from the InfoVox control panel on the thumb drive. This has allowed us to totally remove Window-Eyes from one of our laptops as it simply isn't needed any longer. It just works when we plug in the USB thumb drive and Gordon gets his favourite synthetic voices as well which is another boost. InfoVox InKey sells for the rather inflated price of £240.00 here in the UK for a three-license pack. But given the fact that the desktop version costs £170.00 excluding VAT at 20%, it's a worthwhile outlay if you want this product. Part of the thumb drive is writeable so you can perform any necessary upgrades. The 3 licenses are used if you want to install the programmes on a local machine rather than using the thumb drive. So you can install it on 3 machines and put the thumb drive away somewhere save. Another interesting tool that comes with it is the InfoVox web browser. We haven't quite got around to giving that a proper go yet; but it is claimed to be 100% accessible. I gather that it doesn't use MSAA which is probably a good thing. It must work along similar lines to VoiceOver on the Mac. There are other tools as well and they claim it to be a full accessibility suite that allows you to perform most common tasks. If anybody would like to know more about this and or has questions I haven't answered, I'm only too happy to try and provide more information. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
