My experience with Opera and JAWS and Window-Eyes has been that you can read
all the text of a web page but you do not get any of the decolumnization and
direct cursoring that both programs provide when running with Internet
Explorer.  If you are comfortable with what's the equivalent of moving the
mouse around to work a screen reader, you could probably use Opera with a
screen reader.  In JAWS this would be using the JAWS cursor and in
Window-Eyes the Mouse Pointer.

The menus in Opera can be made more compatible with screen readers with a
check box inside the Preferences of Opera.

Kelly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert D. Dawson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: opera browser


> After Jon's comment I went an check it with my screen readers again
Lookout
> and Tarava did not work. JAWs is being stubborn on even IE so I will try
it
> our later. I did have it working with a screen reader I will dig and find
> out what I used.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> At 03:22 PM 10/30/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Opera is not very compatible with screen readers, but has great features
> >for people with low vision and great support for the keyboard.  They
> >support extensive user styling of web content and allow users in one step
> >to turn on and off images or user styling.
> >
> >Jon
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Penny Gray wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with the opera browser?  Is it an
> > > accessible Web browser?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.  Penny
> > >
> > >
> > > ******************************************
> > > Penny Gray
> > > Adaptive Technology Specialist
> > > Bucks County community college
> > > Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
> > > 215-968-8104
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> > > http://www.bucks.edu/services/disability/
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> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> Robert David Dawson, Ph.D, Director of ICATER
> Iowa Center for Assistive Technology and Educational Resources (ICATER)
> N168 North Lindquist Center
> College of Education
> University of Iowa
> Iowa City, Iowa, 52242
>
> Phone: 319-335-5280
> Fax:     319-335-5386
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