Guest guest Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Thanks, Jane : ~ ) Subject: listen to the web To: " AutisticSpectrumTreehouse " <AutisticSpectrumTreehouse > Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 8:20 PM June 26, 2008 Tool lets the blind surf Web anywhere Visions of future technology don't involve being chained to a desktop machine. People move from home computers to work computers to mobile devices; public kiosks pop up in libraries, schools and hotels; and people increasingly store everything from e-mail to spreadsheets on the Web. But for the roughly 10 million people in the United States who are blind or visually impaired, using a computer has, so far, required special screen-reading software typically installed only on their own machines. New software called Web Anywhere, launched this week, lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go. The tool, developed at the UW, turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads out Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections. The free program is available at <http://webanywhere. cs.washington. edu/>http://webanywhere. cs.washington. edu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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