As a future school library media specialist, I am always concerned about ensuring universal accessibility for all my students. So, I was tickle pink to read this article about an open source Internet application that has been developed to make web surfing accessible to the blind on any computer:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-technology/20080716/TEC.TechBit.Blind.Web/
Called WebAnywhere, it is a browser that will link to and then read aloud any web page. And since this browser is web-based, there is no expensive software to buy to be able to use it - which is great considering the limited budgets of most libraries.
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