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[senit] Speaking web pages on Mac computers

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Fri Jan 11 15:13:53 GMT 2008

Article: [senit] Speaking web pages on Mac computers

A message from Charles Chen, developer of FireVox, the plugin for Firefox
that reads Firefox content and menus announce a new version with
enhanced Mac speech support.  This seems to work well, but i'm sure
he'd recieve any comments/bugs. It is free and open source.

As Simon Judge suggested It might also be useful for people, for
example, wanting to be able to access the internet on any machine with
a USB port - by putting firefox and firevox on the same USB memory
stick
(http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable).

Another program from Charles, "CLiCk, Speak" provides reading support
for web pages.

You can also find more Firefox features and add-ons for an accessible
web experience at:
http://www.accessfirefox.com

-- 
Steve Lee
--
Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
www.fullmeasure.co.uk

----o0o----

New version of Fire Vox released today. This is the release that Mac lovers
have been waiting for! Support for the built-in Apple voices! I'd write more
in this release post but I'm guessing that most Mac owners have already
stopped reading at this point and are hitting my download page. This release
also includes some optimizations/stability fixes for Orca users.

[Note from Steve: Orca is a popular screen reader available on Linux]

Enjoy!

Direct link:
http://firevox.clcworld.net/clc-4-tts_bundle_v3.6_release.xpi

-Charles
http://clcworld.net


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