Many websites these days convert their news items/articles into the RSS format.
These news readers are used to gather all these and present them to the user.
In effect, you can get all your news in this program, without visiting these
websites individually.
Haven't tried it on my own though.
On 17 Sep 2002 at 10:23,
Sudhir R. scribbled two cents' worth--Re: accessible software--
> Sep 17, 2003 - 1020 hrs (Indian Standard Time)
>
> Hi everybody !
>
> I am a new subscriber to this list from India and am afraid I am not very
> techno-savvy.
>
> I couldn't make out what RSS news feed means and how one goes about
> subscribing to one of them. Can somebody help ?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> R Sudhir
>
> PS : Since Screen Readers, like most other software packages, are quite
> expensive in India, I am making do with a demo version downloaded from the
> Net. That explains the archaic date on this mail.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Philips <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:54 PM
> Subject: accessible software
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Was curious to know if there is any good abbreviation expander software,
> in
> > other words, software that enables faster and efficient typing. The
> sighted
> > people have many such software like instant text, etc. Is there any such
> > software that works well with screen readers?
> >
> > Also RSS news feeds are becoming popular these days. Has any one tried
> using
> > these rss newsreaders to read news?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and
> > Have a nice day!
> > Just an email away......
> > Justin
> >
> >
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Justin
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