Greetings:
The following information was passed along to me by one of my
international contacts in Thailand. I myself do not have the
time to evaluate the product that is discussed, but I assume that
one or another of you might. Is this a better solution as
opposed to LYNX? Who can say. All I know is that today, LYNX is
the principal way that us DOS users with Unix shell accounts get
on to the Web. There are some folks who are using NetScape to
good effect, and perhaps the day will come when all of us will be
using a variant of that product. Who can say. Everything keeps
changing at an accelerating pace.
Regards,
Curtis Chong
curtisc@winternet.com
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 18:01:48 GMT
Subject: WebSpeak
WebSpeak browser guides blind onto Internet
An Internet browser for the blind has been developed by Productivity
Works, the New Jersey software developer. WebSpeak is in final testing
with a full release planned for April. It can be installed on a Windows
PC like any other Web browser, but instead of displaying the page, it reads
out the text, describing links on the page that allow you to access other
Web pages.
It can also read e-mail, handle file-transfer and play sound files.
WebSpeak is designed to plug into existing "text-to-speech" products
that cannot recognise the language in which a Web page is written (HTML?).
Ray Ingram, executive vise-president of Productivity Works, sees the
browser as an educational tool. "We want to get this into schools and
libraries, to allow blind and partially sighted users to learn alongside
others," he says.
WebSpeak will be distributed freely as shareware. Productivity Works is
inviting blind computer users to help test the pre-release product.
Contact: info@prodworks.com
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