News from the AT world
Just a quick post to share what I consider the most important news in the AT world. As you know by now this has to do with magnifiers and screen readers.
So first off — ZoomText — what has happened? Not much, really. I am disappointed.
Off we go to JAWS then. JAWS 9 public beta is out, and the most significant change for me in this release is the support for the standard GMail interface, yay!
Next up we have Issist, the creators of iZoom, who now has released “the world’s first web-based screen magnifier”, which is pretty neat!
NVDA is progressing steadily. I should get to updating the Swedish translation (which I haven’t done since the 0.5 release).
When it comes to Linux, Orca is still going strong on the screen reader side, while we have a new program on the magnifiers’ side, namely the zoom plug-in for compiz-fusion. I haven’t tested this yet, but it’s supposed to be the greatest so far.
Since you’re also interested in accessibility, how did you get around using the captcha for the comment form?
Ah, now that I post this, I see you weren’t able to. Me either.
Comment av Aaron Leventhal — Jul 18, 2008 kl. 14:19
The CAPTCHA… oh yes, I hate the fact that I can’t do anything about it. I don’t like it, and didn’t want it, but it’s there. *sigh
Comment av Daniel — Jul 18, 2008 kl. 21:08