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Free Screen Readers for Blind Users

Interested in trying a few new free screen reading software tools for blind users? Check out a couple of open source screen reader projects such as:

Thunder
http://www.screenreader.net/

Firevox (not a full-blown screen reader, but a talking browser extension)
http://firevox.clcworld.net/about.html

Posted by Fran Smith on May 8, 2007 7:45 AM |

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I am currently doing a GCSE Maths course. I am blind, and am using the screen reader JAWS.

one of the text books that i am using is about 90 % diagrams. I have been using OCR software to convert the scanned immage into text, but the OCR won't recognise graphs.

Is there a programme that will work well with JAWS to convert the graphs and diagrams, so that they can be read by JAWS?

Thanks for any help. I will eventualy get the diagrams embossed, but i want to read some of the chapters, so that i am at least prepared for some of what is coming up.

Posted by: torie | January 21, 2009 10:38 AM

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