Is anyone familiar with this free screen reader? How is it?
Tracy
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Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:29 PM
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Subject: Science and Arts Foundation Newsletter No. 25
Science and Arts Foundation
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http://www.saf.ir
Newsletter No. 25
October 2002
1. SAF LAUNCHES FREE VOICE BROWSER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND
BLIND
To facilitate the use of computers for the visually impaired,
SAF's technical team has developed Tarava, a voice browser in
English, which enables visually impaired users to work
independently with computers and the Internet. This software
allows visually impaired and blind users to navigate the screen
through desktop icons, start menu icons, menu bars in different
windows, items within menus and dialogue boxes. All windows
operating system utilities are accessible to blind users with
this software, which works through a voice engine. Tarava
allows visually impaired users to access valuable information on
the Internet, use e-mail, search the web or access favorite
sites and download FTP links.
Tarava will be distributed free of charge to educational
institutions anywhere in the world for the blind and visually
impaired. Considering the high cost of such screen readers,
Tarava will serve as a breakthrough in facilitating the access
of the visually impaired to computers and the Internet.
"With Tarava computers will be accessible for me and other
visually impaired users like myself. Even though the Internet
has always been greatly resourceful for sighted users it has
remained inaccessible for people like myself. Tarava will be an
entry point to valuable information and other resources stored
on the web for the blind," says Behnam Glonezhad, a visually
impaired student of Law at Shahid Beheshti University, who has
collaborated with the SAF team at Sharif University to develop
Tarava.
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2. SAF SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Aba Basir, located in Isfahan, is a residential educational
facility serving the needs of over 300 visually impaired and
blind youth, both boys and girls. SAF provided this center with
a computer site consisting of ten workstations, one server, one
scanner and one brail printer. Aba Basir is also the first such
educational facility to use Tarava, SAF's voice browser for the
visually impaired. Take a look at pictures, a Flash film and
news on Aba Basir at: http://www.saf.ir/docs/News/
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