the following is a list of current screen readers that are currently being worked on. If I think the screen reader is abbandened and or discontinued, It will say so under the screen readers name
Odilia is a screenreader for linux that is under active development. According to its website, its going to try to add the accessibility that linux has allways been needing. Including addons, Object Navigation, OCR, and other things simulare to what NVDA has. I do not have a linux install at the moment, so I am unable to test it for you, but I will provide you with a link to the projects web page, if you test it, it would be grate if you could provide feedback to the devs of this screenreader. With that out of the way, the website can be found
hereBRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated. I have got no idea if this project is abbandened or not, the reason being that I could not find any information on what the site was last updated. If you want to go to their website and check it out, you can visit it
herepc talker is a screenreader made in japan. That is all the information I can give you at the moment, since the website is in japanese and you need a translator to translate it. If you want to try to navigate this website, the link is
heresince someone sent me the link to the installer for pc talker, I will provide that here as well. thanks to whoever did that, i could not have done it myself.
download the setup file for pc talker. Note that your system must be set to japanese, other wise, the screenreader will refuse to runThe Chrome Screen reader extension is a showcase of a fully featured screen reader for the web built using only web technologies such as html and javascript. This extension specifically works within the Chrome browser to read content aloud. For more comprehensive solutions, we recommend the use of full system screen readers like ChromeVox on Chrome OS, VoiceOver on Mac, JAWS, NVDA or Narrator on Windows, etc. Please note that this screen reader is for the web only, as you saw in the quote above. This means that it will probably not work if you close the browser. I have no idea if it works fully though. So yeah, the screenreader extention can be found
heresupernova is a screenreader that is being developed by dolphin computer access. The latest release I believe is supernova 21, which include these features: * Performance improvements for Microsoft Word 2019 and 365 * support for Microsoft OneCore Voices They also dropped support for windows 7 and 8, which they say on their website. Dolphin wants to ensure people who are blind or partially sighted get the most from the latest updates to the Microsoft Windows platform. To continue delivering accessibility to these latest innovations, SuperNova no longer includes support for devices that run Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. While SuperNova may continue to run on Windows 7 and 8.1 devices, the Dolphin team is not able to fix any issues that occur on these operating systems. If you currently use SuperNova on a device which runs Windows 8.1 or earlier, please contact our friendly team in the UK for advice on computer packages that will support the latest upgrade to SuperNova 21. If you live outside the UK, please contact one of our trusted local Dolphin Dealers for further advice. very off topic, but dolphin dealer sounds like a very shady drug dealer company. Anyways, if you want to try the free trial of supernova, they're website can be found
hereJaws for windows (jaws) is a screenreader developed by freedom scientific. It has existed since the days of dos back in the 1980s, and is still being developed to this day. Jaws is a free trial, meaning that you can use it within a spesific time frame. this trial is 40 minutes, meaning that after 40 minutes, you will have to reboot your pc to continue using jaws. if you want to check out the free trial, you can download it
herethe following is a list of prices for the different kinds of licenses for jaws for windows: Purchase Price Home Annual License (U.S. Only) $95/year Student Annual License (U.S. Only) $90/year $1000Home License Professional License $1285 90-Day Timed License $250
NVDa is a screenreader that was first released in 2006; at this time of writing, 16 years ago by NVaccess. It is open source, and is developed in Python, and C++. Be aware that this screenreader works only on Microsoft Windows, and not on any other platform then windows. However, NVDA is not only in english, as a matter of fact, it supports at the time of this writing. 62 languages.. Here is a little timeline of development from 2006, and all the way to 2013. "Concerned by the high cost of commercial screen readers, In April 2006, Michael Curran began writing a Python-based screen reader with Microsoft SAPI as its speech engine. It provided support for Microsoft Windows 2000 onwards, and provided screen reading capabilities such as basic support for some third-party software and web browsing. Towards the end of 2006, Curran named his project Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) and released version 0.5 the following year. Throughout 2008 and 2009, several versions of 0.6 appeared, featuring enhanced web browsing, support for more programs, braille display output, and improved support for more languages. To manage continued development of NVDA, Curran, along with James Teh, founded NV Access in 2007.[4][5] NVDA's features and popularity continued to grow.[6] 2009 saw support for 64-bit versions of Windows as well as greater program stability in 2010. Major code restructuring to support third-party modules, coupled with basic support for Windows 8, became available in 2011. Throughout 2012, NVDA gained improved support for Windows 8, ability to perform automatic updates, included add-ons manager to manage third-party add-ons, gained improved support for entering East Asian text and introduced touchscreen support, the first of its kind for third-party screen readers for Windows. NVDA gained support for Microsoft PowerPoint in 2013 and was updated in 2014 to support PowerPoint 2013; NVDA also added enhanced WAI-ARIA support that same year. Also in 2013, NV Access introduced a restructured method of reviewing screen text, and introduced a facility to manage profiles for applications, as well as improving access to Microsoft Office and other office suites" If you would like to download this screenreader or visit its github page, you can do so from the links below
Go to NVDAs github page download the newest version of NVDAoh would you look at that, the dolphin is back. this time, however, it does not mention the drug dealing company, oops I ment the dolphin dealers on the main page. It does mention it on the download page. Anyways, moving on This appears, from what I have managed to gather, to be another screenreader, or a thing that is based off of supernova. Here is a little discription from their website. Powerful screen reader for Windows Access on-screen information with intelligent speech and braille About Dolphin ScreenReader Dolphin ScreenReader is fast, reliable screen reading software for people who are blind or severely visually impaired. ScreenReader can be customised to meet your exact requirements: • Range of customisable speech settings • Support for a wide range of braille displays • Fast, reliable access to Microsoft Office and Windows apps • Explore the screen with a keyboard or braille display • Connect a scanner to Scan & Read printed text • Install on a Windows PC, laptop or carry on a USB • Knowledgeable support from Dolphin accessibility experts. Yay, would you look at that. Another trial! This time, it mentions a price, which is around €1195. Iether way, if you wish to download this screenreader, you can do so
heremicrosoft narrator is the screenreader built into windows by default. It has been existent since windows 2000, but it wasn't that good back then. Now adays however, it is becoming quite usable. To use this built in screenreader, press windows plus control plus enter on your keyboard. If you somehow do not have narrator installed. You will need to find a copy of it somewhere, but it should be included by default. Download link not existent
voiceover is the built in screenreader for mac and IOS devices. Its built in by default, so no need to install anything. On IOS, since its a touch device, it allows a blind person to double click on things to activate them. So, let's say that I want to open an app. You and me, for example, could tap on the app once to open it. However, whenever you do that with voiceover, the app says the name of the elemtn your currently on, and you have to double tap on the item to activate it. If your wondering how to enable voiceover on the mac, I have no idea, never touched a mac device in my life Download link not available for, well, reasons that you can probably figure out
ZDSR is very close to NVDA, in the sence that it can provide support for addons, It has its own cloud, etc. The thing that seperates it from NVDA is that Like a (surtan) Screen reader provider, its once again a trial. And I believe you have to pay munthly for a licence. However, since the website is, once again, in a foren language, I am unable to translate it and provide you with the download link. So, once again, I will be providing you with the home page, or, at least what I believe to be the home page. Anyways, the site can be found at
this linkbefore you go clicking away in the installer, I believe it is in Chinese as well as the screen reader. I remember I tested it a while back and couldn't do anything with it, but things could have changed
sunshine is another chinese screenreader. The thing is, once again, I have no information about this screenreader at all, considdering I have never tested it, and the website is once again in a different language. Here is the link to their website
go to sunshines websitecommentary screenreader is a screenreader for android made by wiliang lee It came to the international market around 2016, and it was called talk man back then, before mr. lee decided to change the name to commentary screenreader, then he changed it again to Jieshuo around 2019, before yet another name change a few versions after, this time, it was changed to Jieshuo +. Mr. Lee is also known on some places on the internet as nirenr. I would also like to add that commentary is paid, but there is a good amount of features that are free as well that is very useful. Some free features include. • over 99% of the screenreader accessible to you some paid features include: • the raw command which is a command that pastes touch screen jestures to the application in question instead of going through the traditional screenreader way of doing it. • OCR. • ability to create more then 1 keyboard or jesture scheme at a time • allows you to use the jieshuo camera. this camera can detect pictures, text, money, and animals. • ability to use more volume key actions on the volume keys for spesific commands. Commentary has got a github page, which can be found
herea person named juan has recorded a little introductionn to commentary, which you can give a listen and download
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