I just received a copy of the software to evaluate.

It's fantastic! All that you have to do is to move the mouse over anything, and it reads it instantly.
The other thing that it works well in is dialog boxes - this is where many screen reading programs do not quite measure up.

Download the free demo and have a look.
This is great software for someone who can see, but has reading difficulties.

Hope that helps.
Marlene McIntosh

Cambrian College
The Glenn Crombie Centre
    for Disability Services
1400 Barrydowne Road
Sudbury, ON P3A 3V8
(705) 566-8101 x. 7219
Room 2539
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http://homepages.cambrianc.on.ca/snrrc

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I believe this is a Canadian company, maker of Windows Bridge a good screen
reader or so I'm told.

This new product sounds interesting.

Norman
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