[nfb-talk] Fw: Penn State - NFB Files complaint against

[Loren Wakefield]

Thanks.  I will check it out.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net>
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> Doh! Sorry. I hate it when people mention an open source project and don't 
> include a link and this time I did it myself.
>
> http://www.nvda-project.org/
>
> Be prepared for a fairly steep learning curve if you try nvda. Their 
> approach is quite a bit different from that taken by jaws.  But there is a 
> fairly active support email list that you can subscribe to by sending a 
> message to nvda-request at freelists.org <nvda-request at freelists.org>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loren Wakefield" <isaiah5719 at mchsi.com>
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> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 5:04 PM
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>> Where do you find this animal?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>>> Well, I agree with your main point but you don't necessarily have to go 
>>> to Apple if you want a free screen reader. There are a couple of free 
>>> screen readers for Windows. The one I am most familiar with is called 
>>> nvda.
>>>
>>> So I don't know if VoiceOver is scaring Microsoft as  much as it is 
>>> scaring Freedom Scientific.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Loren Wakefield" <isaiah5719 at mchsi.com>
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>>> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: Penn State - NFB Files complaint against
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>>>
>>>> That would still be to the education factor.  Whatever made them do it, 
>>>> I think it is really cool they did.  I'm thinking seriously of taking 
>>>> advantage of it.
>>>>
>>>> It would also seem to me that with tightening budgets, state agencies 
>>>> who buy computers and such for their clients are going to have to look 
>>>> more at Apple.  It doesn't take long for real savings to start adding 
>>>> up if the speech is already there, versus buying a computer and then 
>>>> still paying Jaws or Window-eyes or someone another $1200 or so to make 
>>>> the thing talk to you. I believe it will be interesting to watch this 
>>>> in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Loren
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Ryan O" <ryano218 at comcast.net>
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>>>> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 3:56 PM
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>>>>>I thought apple made their machines accessible due to a lawsuit filed 
>>>>>by a
>>>>> kid in the Maine public school system.
>>>>>
>>>>> RyanO
>>>>>
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