I'm not a Firefox user but have heard it mentioned here so this might be helpful to some.
Begin forwarded message: > From: "ATMac" <h...@atmac.org> > Date: February 26, 2010 4:01:19 PM CST > To: "Pete Nalda" <lpna...@gmail.com> > Subject: ATMac - SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk > > ATMac > > Assistive Technology for Mac OS X, iPod, iPhone and Apple Users > > http://atmac.org > > SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk - 2010-02-25 22:38:59-05 > Firefox generally doesn’t let you use a lot of OS X’s accessibility features, > including the services menu and some of OS X’s regular keyboard shortcuts. > One effect of this is that really easy method for speaking the highlighted > text when you press a key doesn’t work. > > The Firefox extension SpeakingFox fills this gap with some nifty context menu > options which pass the currently highlighted text to OS X’s default speech > engine. > > > SpeakingFox presents its options via the context menu > If you don’t highlight any text, selecting “Start speaking text” will just > speak the word currently under the cursor. As you’d expect, “Stop speaking” > halts any speech currently going on. > > This extension doesn’t make Firefox into a fully accessible web browser for a > blind person - for that you’ll need to use an accessible browser, or a much > more complicated extension such as FireVox. But for most of us who just need > long sections spoken, and can highlight them with a mouse, SpeakingFox is > just perfect. > > Website: SpeakingFox > - Ricky Buchanan > > > Share this > > Do you know somebody else who would find this interesting or useful? Please > forward it to them. Did somebody forward this post to you? Visit > http://atmac.org/ and subscribe to receive posts for free. > > SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk > > Related posts: > > “Text to Speech” isn’t “VoiceOver” > Access Firefox > Firefox and VoiceOver - the Mozilla perspective > > > > To reply to this article or add your thoughts for others to read, please go > to "SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk" on my blog page. > > If you have any questions or problems with this email, please just press > "reply" to write to me. I can't promise to solve all your problems, but I'll > do my best and I love hearing from people. > > - Ricky Buchanan > > > > > > Computing RJ, PO Box 280, Deepdene, Vic 3108, Australia > > To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: > http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?jIyMTEzsrLQsbCzMzAysnLRGtGzMHBwMHOw= > > Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
