The development of Orca was started bySun Microsystemsas part of theGNOMEproject with contributions from many community members, but sinceOracleacquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, Orca turned into a completely community-driven project. It supportsAT-SPI, so it works with the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice/LibreOffice and GTK+, KDE/Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications. Though it is developed by the […]
Programmed and scriptable in Python. SupportsMozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird. Supports web content using JavaScript. Supports Java Access Bridge.IAccessible2is supported.
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Bundled with recent versions of Windows, this basic screen reader makes use of MSAA.
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metalmouth is a simplified open source screen-reader application which can be used to read out any HTML5 web pages and interact with most HTML5 input controls. It also supports multi-tab navigation.
A visual screen reader, which highlights the object and text being read. Supports MSAA, Java Access Bridge (OpenOffice), per line reading from Win32 classes “Edit”(Notepad) and “RichEdit”(Wordpad), MS Word. UIA and IAccessible2 is being worked on. One-month trial version available.
