Cost free services for sightless people to steer net
Published: Jun 17, 2010As a graduate student at the University of Washington, Jeffrey Bigham created
WebAnywhere, a free screen reader that can be used with practically any Web
browser on any operating system–no special software required. Users start at
http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu; from there, they can use keyboard
commands to navigate to any Web page. While other screen readers synthesize
speech from text locally, WebAnywhere fetches speech from a central server
and sends the audio to the user’s computer.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=766
Links:
Jeffrey P. Bigham
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jbigham/
Improving Access for Blind Web Users
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/events/colloquia/20090401-jeffreybigham.html
Helping the Blind Use the Web from Anywhere
http://span.state.gov/wwwfspjanfeb0959.pdf
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Jeff Bigham of the University of Washington demonstrates WebAnywhere, which
allows the visually impaired to use a Web browser on public terminals without
the need to install or configure special accessibility software.
