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- From: Greg.Pike@f49.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Pike)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Screen Reader
- Message-ID: <23713@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:00:16 GMT
- Sender: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
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- Index Number: 23713
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- [This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
-
- David Tanner writes, again:
-
- DT> Bottom line - programmers write software for programmers
- DT> to use, let the users be satisfied with what they get
- DT> and learn to program or forget it. My eight years
- DT> teaching access technology, and three years as head of
- DT> a access technology training program indicate to me
- DT> that you are wrong, very wrong, and that if the new
- DT> Screen Reader does not make huge changes over the MS
- DT> DOS version that it will never come close to competing
- DT> with other speech software products now close to
- DT> release for Windows.
-
- The bottom line is this: Every piece of software that runs on
- every computer everywhere was written by a programmer. By
- definition, if you write a one-line batch file to echo your name,
- you're a programmer. Give yourself a big pat on the back.
-
- Since you've mentioned the Screen Reader Newsletter, you know
- better than to say that the users have to be satisfied with what
- they get or else. Lots of goodies get shipped out with the
- newsletter, including new profiles. The current version of Screen
- Reader is at 1.2. That's the third version, or the second revision
- from the original. If IBM thought the original was good enough,
- they wouldn't have released the newer versions. The newer versions
- were released because the users wanted more, and wanted different
- things, hence new versions.
-
- The new version of Screen Reader for OS/2 is quite a bit different
- from the DOS version. Naturally, it has to be because it now
- accesses a graphical user interface. The PAL programming language
- has been simplified in some areas, but naturally, there are lots of
- new things in the language to handle the GUI.
-
- So far, the only product I've heard for Windows is the product from
- SynthaVoice. Are there others? I've heard that Berkeley systems
- was working on a toolkit for Windows, but I haven't heard anything
- else about either. If there are other packages in the works, I'd
- be interested in hearing about them.
-
- Just the facts.
-
- /Greg
-
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