Hello all, Last night on the TV here in Australia, on the national broadcaster the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), on a program called "The New Inventors" took time out from their usual competition style format to highlight inventions concerned with Access and Ability.
Included amongst the inventions was Screen Reader software for Windows, that was not only programmed by two blind computer users, is licensed open source and thus freely available. It is called NVDA. Personally I hadn't heard of this software before, so please excuse me if this is old to some of you, but in general I thought this maybe of interest to the group. Amongst it's many features highlighted by the program was it's portability - a user is able to load the software onto a USB stick to take to any other computer, and an intriguing audio implementation to signify the cursors position on the page - high pitches for top of the page, descending to lower pitches at the bottom of the page, and stereo panning to indicate left and right of the screen. The ABC page for this show is at this link; http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/specials/ The program was titled "Access and Ability" and there appear to be video of the segments, and I assume these are internationally available. The home page for the NVDA software where it can be downloaded is; http://www.nvda-project.org/ And the parent site for this project is at; http://www.nvaccess.org/ I hope this will be of interest to the group, and I apologise in advance if people think otherwise. Cheers, John Unsworth ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
