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Job Access With Speech (JAWS) 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 refreshable Braille display. JAWS is produced by the Blind and Low Vision Group of Freedom Scientific.
A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) [1] that renders text and image content as speech or braille output. Screen readers are essential to people who are blind, [2] and are useful to people who are visually impaired, [2] illiterate, or have a learning disability. [3]
Brazilian Portuguese screen reader. MSAA support. Latest info about it is from December 2007 [12] Linux Screen Reader (LSR) GNOME: Unix-like Free and open source (New BSD License) It was an alternative screen reader to Orca led by IBM started in 2006. However, it was ceased in 2007 when IBM focused their resources in other projects. [13] It ...
ZoomText is a stand-alone piece of software [1] designed for visually impaired people. [2] It is available for the currently released and supported versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. The program allows the user to see and hear everything on the computer screen [ 3 ] and provides access to applications, documents, email and the ...
The name Orca, which is another term for a killer whale, is a nod to the long-standing tradition of naming screen readers after aquatic creatures, including the Assistive Technology product on Windows called JAWS (which stands for Job Access With Speech), the early DOS screen reader called Flipper, [3] and the UK vision impairment company ...
Screen readers are used to help the visually impaired to easily access electronic information. These software programs run on a computer to convey the displayed information through voice (text-to-speech) or braille (refreshable braille displays) in combination with magnification for low vision users in some cases. There are a variety of ...
"It's just giving us access to trends and fashion and design that I think a lot of people believe blind and low vision parent aren't particularly interested in," says blind advocate Kim Charlson.
Narrative Television Network (NTN) makes movies, television shows and educational programming accessible to millions of blind and visually impaired people and their families. Founded in 1988 by Jim Stovall , the Narrative Television Network unobtrusively adds the voice of a narrator to the existing program between the dialogue so that blind or ...