Thought this may be of interest and related to Serotek's release of SA to
Go for Beta testing. http://www.serotek.com/index.html
Best wishes E.A.
Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab
ECS, University of Southampton
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info/
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Pratik Patel
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:29 PM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go
I've been playing with the software off and on for the last few weeks and
find it tolerably useful. It is quite good on certain web sites and does a
much better job than the current crop of other screen readers. For example,
the GMail regular Ajax-based site is not accessible via any other screen
reader but SAToGo/SA. SA's lack of an off-screen model certainly deters me
from completely relying on it. There are portions of the screen that SA
does not yet recognize and the mouse commands do not function with such
portions all the time. It shows great promise though and as Vista is
adapted more and more, SA and SAToGo will be a fantastic option. I'm also
watching carefully the options provided by NVDA and other open-source screen
reading technologies. With Firefox three on the quick move, NVDA certainly
will have a great advantage in supporting newer standards such as AAREA and
Xool. SaroTech is relying a great deal on Microsoft technologies where as
NVDA is relying muc!
h more on the open-source community. There will be an interesting dynamic
in the screen reader industry.
Pratik
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Behalf Of Kestrell
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:10 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go
I tried the 10 minute demo and, since I am a blind computer user who relies
on a robust screen reader, was very impressed by the level of functionality.
The Web-based screen reader let me navigate my screen reader with ease, and
it also let me use Wordpad and open up and read HTML books I downloaded from
Bookshare.org.
I intend on getting a free account and trying it out for a longer period
next time, maybe for an entire day.
Alicia
The Blind Bookworm Blog
http://kestrell.livejournal.com
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From: "Patrick Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I tried but got a Windows error message during the install process. :(
>
> Patrick
>
> At 12:22 PM 6/22/2007, Kevin Price wrote:
>>Anyone explore this new Web-based screen reader SA To Go. I logged in as
>>guest and got an account. Worked pretty well but wondered if others found
>>problems.
>>I know it only works on Windows based machines.
>>Kevin
>
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