Dear Mr. Nissen:

Thank you very much for bring to my
attention the WordAloud large print
and talking browser.  I will down load
it, and I'll let you know if I will
be reviewing it for inclusion on the Large Print Reviews
website.
(http://www.largeprintreviews.com)

I am always on the lookout for
useful products to review and from
the brief look that I've had on your website, WordAloud looks
like a very
interesting and useful program. I look forward to evaluating it.

Thank you for your help,
Rochelle

John Nissen wrote:

> Hello Rochelle,
>
> Thanks for emerging from lurkdom.
While we're on the subject of
> talking browsers, you might be
interested in WordAloud, which was
> developed as an off-line browser
suitable for elderly people who
> might have a visual impairment
and problems of manual dexterity,
> and who need something really
simple to operate.  (This
development
> was part funded by the European
Union, in the SeniorOnline
project.)
>
> As you must know, as editor of
Large Print Reviews, the majority
> of "blind" people (people who
would qualify as legally blind)
have
> some useful vision and can read
very large print.  The majority are
also
> elderly and technophobes.
WordAloud tries to satisfy these
people,
> while also catering for totally
blind people who have not invested,
> or cannot afford to invest, in
expensive screen readers.  It has
> a built-in speech synthesiser,
and a word-at-a-time display which
> displays the words at the same
time as they are spoken.  This type
> of display allows magnification
up to 150 points, giving characters
> on the screen up to about 1.5
inches in height.  You can adjust
the
> colour scheme to suit yourself:
e.g. with white characters on a
blue
> background.  If you don't need
the speech, you can run the display
> at up to 500 words per minute.
You will find you can read faster
than
> off the printed page - some
people find they can read three
times as fast.
> And you will read very much
faster than with a screen
magnification
> program where you are scrolling
all the time.
>
> WordAloud is very simple to
operate.  It can be operated with
mouse
> alone, or keyboard alone.  The
basic reading operations (pause,
play,
> step sentence, step word) can be
performed with the four cursor
> keys or equivalent onscreen
buttons.
>
> WordAloud can be downloaded free
from www.wordaloud.co.uk for
evaluation.
> Might you consider to review it
in your magazine, Rochelle?
>
> Cheers from Chiswick,
>
> John

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Rochelle Caviness
Editor, Large Print Reviews

http://www.largeprintreviews.com
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