[Athen] Reading Arabic

[Khaleel Eksheir]

Hi Lorraine,

We had to communicate with FreedomScientifc to enable right-to-left
language support on the JAWS licenses.

Thank you,
Khaleel


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On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:58 PM Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:


> Lorraine,

>

> Both JAWS and NVDA screen readers read Arabic.

>

> Wink Harner

>

> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, 4:11 PM Norwich, Lorraine S <lnorwich at bu.edu> wrote:

>

>> Good Evening,

>>

>> I have a blind student who is learning Arabic and is in the first of 3

>> classes.  He is only using his phone using voice over to read the Arabic

>> and if he is going to do this as his language course he would benefit from

>> being able to use other software.

>>

>> Can anyone point me in the direction of what screen readers are around

>> that will speak both Arabic and English other than his phone.

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>> Lorraine

>>

>> Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS

>>

>> Assistant Director of Disability & Access Services

>>

>> 25 Buick Street 3rd Floor, Boston MA 02215

>>

>> lnorwich at bu.edu (email)

>>

>> 617-353-3658 (vox)

>>

>> 617-353-9646 (fax)

>>

>> www.bu.edu/disability (website)

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