[Athen] Windows 8.1 Reader app

[KRISTA L. GREEAR]

I had no success with TTS and Reader with a student this week. My quick solution was to have the student view the PDFs with Adobe Reader and use a TTS (NaturalReader specifically). 


Krista Greear
Access Text and Technology Manager
Disability Resources for Students
Univeristy of Washignton


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From: athen-list-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of E.A.Draffan
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:52 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'; 'Alternate Media'
Subject: RE: [Athen] Windows 8.1 Reader app

I have to admit that I could not find any text to speech options within the Reader app - it will zoom in and out, rotate to landscape mode, allow me to annotate and save in Sky Drive.  It has some keyboard access and I managed to get NVDA to read an accessible PDF.  I have yet to download the MS Office version of Window-Eyes to try that with the various file extensions that can be used with the Reader app (PDF, XPS or TIFF).   
Best wishes
E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan
WAIS, ECS , University of Southampton
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
Mobile +44 (0)7976 289103
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info


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[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan
Sent: 22 January 2014 19:35
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media
Subject: [Athen] Windows 8.1 Reader app

Hello all,

Has anyone tried using the Reader app for Windows 8.1?

I was trying a few different AT applications that provide text-to-speech support (Claro Read and Read & Write Gold) to see if I could get these apps to work with the Reader app. Predictably, there was not much support for all the different reading capabilities in Claro and Read & Write Gold, but I was not able to get any speech output even when selecting the text. It seems as if the Reader app is separate from the underlying OS in that the selected text content is not available via the clipboard.

Has anyone had different experiences with the Reader app in Windows 8.1?
Have you been able to any text-to-speech output from that app with or without AT applications?

Thanks and take care,
Sean

Sean Keegan
Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University




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