Firevox also implemts much of WAI-ARIA, so it is useful for testing and demos of ARIA functionality.
On 05/12/2007, Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles > Chen, its creator. At that time there is no way I would describe it as > "full-fledged screen reader" as it had many shortcomings. I got the > impression it was really just a hobby project, and Charles said he had > pretty much abandoned it in order to work on more interesting stuff. I see > it is now up to version 3.4 so it will be interesting to see how it has > progressed. > > It was certainly usable, but it bears no comparison with a professional > screen reader like JAWS, which is a far superior product. OK, it should be > for $1500 but people should not think that they're getting a $1500 product > for free when they install FireVox. It's more akin to products in the $200 > price bracket. > > One example of the difference is in forms where <label> elements have not > been used, and let's face it, that's 99% of all forms. JAWS applies > heuristics to identify the text that is most likely to be the label, and > associates it with the form control as if a <label> element had been used. 9 > times out of 10 it gets it right. FireVox does not do this. > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nick Lo > Sent: 05 December 2007 04:25 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for > Firefox) > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried/tested the following potentially useful > extensions and if so what their opinion was/is: > > "Two recently released text-to-speech extensions can transform Firefox into > a talking Web browser suitable for users with visual impairments -- and > anyone else who can use a speech interface to the Web. Fire Vox is designed > to be a full-fledged "screen reader in a browser," usable for daily browsing > even for unsighted users. CLiCk, Speak provides point-and-click screen > reading, which can be helpful for partially-sighted users or sighted users > who have written language difficulties (such as dyslexia)." > > http://www.linux.com/feature/122197 > > Nick > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
