Dear all,
This is my first post.
Just adding that Kurzweil 3000 (dyslexic users)/1000 (VIP users) are
also available in the market.
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/
They are text readers and text converters that can extract text from Pdf
images. Expensive but very good quality and great voices. We have
totally blind students that do fine with images scanned out of books.
Kind regards,
Teresa Pedroso
Disability Librarian
Accessible Resources Unit (ARACU)
Oxford University Library Services
Osney One Building
Osney Mead
Oxford
OX2 0EW
Tel: 01865 (2) 83861
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. on
behalf of Jean Hutchins 1
Sent: Thu 12/02/2009 10:27
To: Teresa Pedroso
Subject: screen-readers and text-readers
I have a daily digest so I have just skimmed through 28 messages, and
the
endless repeats of earlier messages in the threads. Just think how long
that
takes someone who is dependent on text reading or screen reading.
Can we just clarify screen-readers and text-readers.
Text-readers read the page content. Screen-readers can also read items
on
Navigation bars, menus, Formatting Styles and file names.
Free WordTalk text-reader can highlight Word text as it reads.
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk <http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/>
Free Natural Reader text-reader can read text that you can highlight in
any
application.
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
Free Read Please text-reader can read any text that you can copy and
paste into
it. You can change the font size and colour.
http://www.readplease.com/
Free Adobe Reader Read Out Loud text-reader for PDFs. You can click on
a
paragraph, or hear a whole page or the whole document (without
highlighting).
http://www.adobe.com <http://www.adobe.com/>
Free Thunder screen-reader can read PDF bookmarks (but it's not good at
reading
the PDF text).
http://www.screenreader.net <http://www.screenreader.net/>
Pay-for Read & Write Gold. You can turn off the screen-reading, and
just use it
as a text-reader.
Pay-for ClaroRead and ClaroRead SE are screen-readers. Both are
available from:
http://www/bdastore.org.uk
Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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