From what I know, other OS’s are behind when compared to windows.[it’s sad, but true], The mozilla plugin scripts package doesn’t work as well as say internet exploder, I mean explorer, how silly of me. I’d love to switch but right now, it’s not posible. I remember hearing that the devs for that package contacted freedomscientific the makers of jaws http://www.hj.com
but were eather ignored, or shot down. Bad fs… WindowEyes support of mozilla is the clossest we got to firefox http://www.gwmicro.com
it’s only accessible if you use the sweet, and it, again isn’t as good of a screen reader as jaws.
Has anyone tried Fire Vox? http://clc-4-tts.cjb.net/
It’s a screen reader plugin for Firefox – basically it’s like having JAWS inside Firefox except it’s free! Unfortunately, it relies on SAPI5 so it is currently Windows only, but on the bright side, the author claims that he can support other OS once he switches to a Java-based speech engine.
Johnny R.says:
Woohoo!
There’s been an update to the Fire Vox site and the author is saying that it works on Mac and Linux now. I just tried it on a Mac OS X Powerbook and it works! The default key assignment seems to be bit problematic on the Mac, but reconfiguring them with the Fire Vox options menu did the trick for me.
From what I know, other OS’s are behind when compared to windows.[it’s sad, but true], The mozilla plugin scripts package doesn’t work as well as say internet exploder, I mean explorer, how silly of me. I’d love to switch but right now, it’s not posible. I remember hearing that the devs for that package contacted freedomscientific the makers of jaws
http://www.hj.com
but were eather ignored, or shot down. Bad fs… WindowEyes support of mozilla is the clossest we got to firefox
http://www.gwmicro.com
it’s only accessible if you use the sweet, and it, again isn’t as good of a screen reader as jaws.
Thanks a lot ofr the Fire Vox link!!!
Has anyone tried Fire Vox?
http://clc-4-tts.cjb.net/
It’s a screen reader plugin for Firefox – basically it’s like having JAWS inside Firefox except it’s free! Unfortunately, it relies on SAPI5 so it is currently Windows only, but on the bright side, the author claims that he can support other OS once he switches to a Java-based speech engine.
Woohoo!
There’s been an update to the Fire Vox site and the author is saying that it works on Mac and Linux now. I just tried it on a Mac OS X Powerbook and it works! The default key assignment seems to be bit problematic on the Mac, but reconfiguring them with the Fire Vox options menu did the trick for me.