screen reader

Orca

November 21, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Accessibility

orca2-sm

Availability: Free Download
Comparable:  JAWS

Orca is a free and open source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and GTK+, Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications).

 

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JAWS

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Accessibility

tn_Jaws

Availability: Labs
Comparable:  Orca

JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refresh-able Braille display.  JAWS features:

  • Two multi-lingual synthesizers: Eloquence and Vocalizer Expressive
  • Talking installation
  • Built-in free DAISY Player and full set of DAISY-formatted basic training books
  • Works with Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and much more
  • Supports Windows 8, including touch screens and gestures
  • Support for MathML content presented in Internet Explorer that is rendered with MathJax
  • Fast information look-up at your fingertips with Research It
  • Access any image on the screen that includes text with Convenient OCR
  • Save time with Skim Reading
  • The only Windows screen reader to provide contracted Braille input from your Braille keyboard
  • Fully compatible with MAGic, screen magnification software, and OpenBook, scanning and reading program
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