[Travelandtourism] Allegiant Airline / screen reader software

[Peter Wolf]

Hi Kim, and everyone-

This is a little tangent off, but the issue of websites and screen readers caught my attention.

This isn’t the first time I have read about issues navigating with screen readers, and it moved me to offer up what I’ve found.  So please forgive, everyone, if I come into this stream a little out of context (Kim) in your interchanges - I just thought that perhaps somewhere this might be helpful to someone, in the community.  Please either tell me a good place to post this for the general membership, or feel free to just  post it there if it’s easier.  

This message is about screen reader software for vision impairment.  I’m not completely blind, but vision impaired with reading sufficiently to use a screen reader.  This means that I still can “point and shoot”, meaning pick and highlight what I want read, and then activate the reader to run the content.  It’s helpful with websites.  If any of you fellow members have this kind of vision function/impairment, I want to share with you that I have tried both Zoomtext and VisioVoice vision impairment versions of software and will offer a comparison.

I am aware that Zoomtext is much better through a PC than the Mac version.  I use Mac.  If you do too, the comparison that I found is that they are basically the same, but with two main differences.  First, Zoomtext mac crashed my computer.  VisioVoice hasn’t.  Both programs give a similar content reader window, and their own brand of enhanced cursors.  VisioVoice has *very* nice adustable patterns for big cursors.  

The essential difference between the two readers is reading speed.  I could not get speed with Zoomtext Mac.  It was like being stuck in the mud with somewhere to go.  But speeds can go very high with VisioVoice using their mac and acapella voices.  Zoomtext was I think 600 or 800 bucks.  VisioVoice was 250.  The only other difference (if you *do* use some vision), was that I found it more useful that Zoomtext would highlight a sentence, and also the individual word being read within it.  VisioVoice only highlights one or the other.  That concern is particular to me perhaps, because my vision issues come from head injury and I may or may not construct context, even if I my eyes do point at something. 

If any of you out there have related vision issues, I hope this is helpful.  

Best wishes,
Peter



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On Jul 27, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Kim Brown via Travelandtourism <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> I am Kim Brown, and I am trying to book a flight using the above mentioned
> web site. I have tried a few different screen readers, and web browsers, but
> have not been able to book my flight. 
> Has anyone used this site with a screen reader with any success? 
> 
> Thank you to all who may assist me. 
> 
> 
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