[Athen] more than one question!

[Terry Thompson]

In addition to those Travis mentioned, here are a couple more open source
screen reader projects the students should be aware of: 

Thunder
http://www.screenreader.net/

Firevox (not a full-blown screen reader, but a talking browser extension)
http://firevox.clcworld.net/about.html

Terry Thompson
Technology Specialist, DO-IT
University of Washington
tft at u.washington.edu
206/221-4168 
http://www.washington.edu/doit 


> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org 

> [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Travis Roth

> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:07 PM

> To: jeano at uwm.edu; 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

> Subject: Re: [Athen] more than one question!

> 

> Hi,

> 

> As for question 3:

> "Question #3 - the students are siblings from Pakistan. Their 

> principle goal with regard to completing this degree is to 

> create a screen reading system similar to Jaws in Pakistani 

> languages. Besides connecting with Freedom Scientific, are 

> there any other suggestions for achievement of this goal 

> besides them doing it themselves after 4-5 arduous years in a 

> software engineering program?"

> 

> They of course could start from scratch.

> Depending on the study program and its goals, I'd suggest 

> that they and their instructors evaluate adding this goal as 

> a task to an existing open-source project.

> 

> For example, an open source screen reader for Gnome (runs on 

> Linux) is called Orca. Orca is written primarily in Python, 

> and takes advantage of the accessibility API in Gnome. Find 

> more info at http://live.gnome.org/Orca .

> 

> Another recently launched open-source screen reading project 

> for Windows is called Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA).

> http://www.kulgan.net/nvda/

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Jean Salzer [mailto:jeano at uwm.edu]

> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:56 PM

> To: athen at athenpro.org

> Subject: [Athen] more than one question!

> 

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> I just met with some folks from a small, private college in the area. 

> They are interested in learning more about how colleges have 

> accommodated totally blind students with computer science 

> majors. We had 

> some discussion of assistive technology, however, part of 

> their concern 

> is the world of windows and graphics versus just 'code'.

> 

> Question #1 - is there anyone out there who has been able to 

> accommodate 

> a qualified blind student through a 4-year degree program for 

> software 

> engineering?

> 

> Question #2 - how well can the Tiger embosser and software work with 

> Jaws so the students can create tactile representations of 

> the graphics 

> they'll need for coursework completion?

> 

> Question #3 - the students are siblings from Pakistan. Their 

> principle 

> goal with regard to completing this degree is to create a 

> screen reading 

> system similar to Jaws in Pakistani languages. Besides 

> connecting with 

> Freedom Scientific, are there any other suggestions for 

> achievement of 

> this goal besides them doing it themselves after 4-5 arduous 

> years in a 

> software engineering program?

> 

> Thanks in advance.

> 

> 

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