That said how would it compare for a developer that is making an effort
to correctly mark up their html just to get an impression of how it
would work for a screen reader user?
Steve Green 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: [email protected]
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
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