[Athen] Screen reader and Eee PC?

[eileen berger]

Hi- have a student using this little computer. She is using kurzweil 1000 
with great success.
Eileen

--On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:28 PM -0600 "Gabbert, Darren L." 
<darren at missouri.edu> wrote:


>

> I am working with someone who is blind that is in need of a low/no cost

> screen reader for her PC.  It turns out she has been given a Eee PC.  I

> am perfectly unfamiliar with this puppy.  It is apparently a Linux based

> laptop.  It is running an Intel R Mobile Processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB Hard

> Drive, and runs some kind of word processing programs called Star Office

> 8 and Ez PenPower Jr.  Seems to use Firefox for a browser.

>

> Anyway, I need some suggestions here on providing screen reader

> capabilities.  Thanks in advance...

>

> Darren

>

>

>

> Darren Gabbert

>

> Grants & Contracts Administrator

>

> Adaptive Computing Technology Center

>

> University of Missouri Division of IT

>

> N-18 Memorial Union

>

> Columbia, MO 65211

>

> Phone: (573) 673-5629

>

> Fax:  (314) 594-9909

>

> Darren at Missouri.edu

>

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Eileen Connell Berger
Assistant Director
Office of Student Affairs,
Access and Disability Services Administrator
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education
Longfellow Hall 046
13 Appian Way,
Cambridge, Ma. 02138
phone: 617 495 5838
fax:   617 496 8024
bergerei at gse.harvard.edu

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