Ok,
the proper general term for this is "Assistive Technology" (AT for
short).
Text/braille browsers: Lynx and BrailleSurf
Screenreaders and speech browsers: Dolphin Supernova, JAWS, IBM HPR,
pwWebSpeak, WindowsEyes.
Most
of these have demo versions you can download. Howerver, I would say that -
unless you actually know
what
you're doing when using these browsers - it may do more harm than good to test
in these (especially
the
screenreaders), as your testing will not reflect the way a regular user would
employ them. There are
many
setting etc (e.g. verbosity settings) that are not ideal in the default. Also,
many people make the mistake
of
listening to the entire output of the screenreader, whereas visually impaired
users will skip through a page at
high
speed, then often backtrack and slow down as needed (similar to visually
skim-reading the page).
Without good command of the software, your testing will be inherently
flawed.
Patrick
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Patrick H.
Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 May 2004 11:16
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [WSG] Impairment browsers (insert correct pc term here)Hi,I recently downloaded standalone versions of old versions of the major browsers for testing (and am aware of the imperfections of these) but was curious after reading the post on 'Lynx'...Does anyone know the names (and ideally urls) to download speech, text browsers etc? I know nothing about these and would really love a chance to be able to test my work on these directly. Apologies for not knowing the correct pc term for categorising these.Thanks in advance,Jamie Mason: Design
