[Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?

[Terrence VanEttinger]

Was there one I missed?  From what I remember OCRNow had a lot of issues.

Terrence

Terrence van Ettinger
Braille and Assistive Technology Instructor
Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
3903 Taft Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99517-3069
(907) 248-7770, X205
tvanettinger at alaskabvi.org

-----Original Message-----
From: trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of The BlindTechs Network
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 3:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?

We have free OCR and a free screen reader on the iphone.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Coffman
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:55 PM
To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?

Let's not forget the Windows Mobile smart phones in this discussion. 
Simbion phones only work on select networks that don't provide good coverage

everywhere.  It is unfortunate that almost everything is centered about 
those phones.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:44 PM
Subject: [Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?


> Hi,
>
> I am looking for volunteers for an idea I have to create a free open 
> source screen reader for Symbian 2nd and 3rd edition and beyond phones. 
> Like NVDA for Symbian which would use all free open source components: 
> such as ESpeak for speech output and brltty for braille output. I'm tired 
> of paying $300 if I had wanted to buy Talks so I think I'll just make my 
> own Symbian screen reader and release it as open source software. Also 
> woould be cool if someday we could have free OCR software for Symbian.
>
> Josh
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