The version I saw of the Home Page Reader was efficient in accessing the
WWW and the voices were more than bearable, Anna. Enjoy!
Susan
Anna wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> You might be interested in knowing about the 30-day trial of the IBM Home
> Page Reader that we at our medical library are now viewing for possible
> installation at our new special needs workstation. The software is very
> reasonably priced, I hear (less than $150 bucks), and the product looks
> good so far. The voice can be changed according to gender or age group.
>
> http://www-3.ibm.com/able/hprtrial3.html
>
> >From blurb:
> Home Page Reader (HPR) is a spoken on-ramp to the
> Information
> Highway for computer users who are blind or
> visually impaired.
>
> This innovative product provides unprecedented
> Web access by quickly,
> easily, and efficiently speaking Web page
> information. HPR provides a
> simple, easy-to-use interface for navigating and
> manipulating Web page
> elements and utilizes the tremendous capabilities
> of IBM's ViaVoice
> text-to-speech(TTS) text-to-speech synthesizer
> for speaking.
>
> Using the keyboard to navigate, a person who is
> blind or who has a
> visual impairment can hear the full range of Web
> page content provided
> in a logical, clear, and understandable manner.
>
> Home Page Reader can speak text, frames, image
> and text links,
> alternate text for images and image maps, form
> elements including
> JavaScript, graphics descriptions, text in column
> format, and data input
> fields. It even includes special table navigation
> features that allow users
> to understand even the most complex tables, such
> as television listings.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
> Information Services Librarian
> Taubman Medical Library
> University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, MI
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