[Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go

[Pratik Patel]

I've been playing with the software off and on for the last few weeks and find it tolerably useful.  It is quite good on certain web sites and does a much better job than the current crop of other screen readers.  For example, the GMail regular Ajax-based site is not accessible via any other screen reader but SAToGo/SA.  SA's lack of an off-screen model certainly deters me from completely relying on it.  There are portions of the screen that SA does not yet recognize and the mouse commands do not function with such portions all the time.  It shows great promise though and as Vista is adapted more and more, SA and SAToGo will be a fantastic option.  I'm also watching carefully the options provided by NVDA and other open-source screen reading technologies.  With Firefox three on the quick move, NVDA certainly will have a great advantage in supporting newer standards such as AAREA and Xool.  SaroTech is relying a great deal on Microsoft technologies where as NVDA is relying much more on the open-source community.  There will be an interesting dynamic in the screen reader industry.  

Pratik

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Kestrell
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:10 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go

I tried the 10 minute demo and, since I am a blind computer user who relies 
on a robust screen reader, was very impressed by the level of functionality. 
The Web-based screen reader let me navigate my screen reader with ease, and 
it also let me use Wordpad and open up and read HTML books I downloaded from 
Bookshare.org.

I intend on getting a free account and trying it out for a longer period 
next time, maybe for an entire day.

Alicia
The Blind Bookworm Blog
http://kestrell.livejournal.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Burke" <burke at ucla.edu>
To: <athen at athenpro.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Athen] Web-based accessibility tool -SA to Go



> Hi Kevin,

>

> I tried but got a Windows error message during the install process. :(

>

> Patrick

>

> At 12:22 PM 6/22/2007, Kevin Price wrote:

>>Anyone explore this new Web-based screen reader SA To Go.  I logged in as

>>guest and got an account.  Worked pretty well but wondered if others found

>>problems.

>>I know it only works on Windows based machines.

>>Kevin

>

>

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