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BBC My Web My Way Explains common web accessibility options on Windows, Mac and Linux machines. http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/

BrailleSurf 4.0 Basic web browser driving a Braille display. http://www.snv.jussieu.fr/inova/bs4/uk/

BrookesTalk Browser for the blind and visually impaired, being developed by Oxford Brookes University. Free evaluation version. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/cms/research/speech/btalk.htm

Communicate: Webwide Symbol and blind web browser from Widgit http://www.widgit.com/products/webwide/index.htm

Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop Fully-fledged GNU/Linux speech-enabled browser with support for Aural CSS. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

Enhancing Internet Access Touchscreen system for people with disabilities and special needs. http://www.elr.com.au/eiad/

Fire Vox - Talking Browser Extension for Firefox An open source suite of extensions for Firefox that make Firefox into a talking brower for the visually impaired. http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

Firefox Accessibar Firefox extension that allows you to change the appearance of web pages, including zoom and colour changes, and read back web pages. http://accessibar.mozdev.org/

Guide An all-in-one software package featuring a self-voicing web browser from Software Express. http://www.softwareexpress.co.uk/

Introduction to the Screen Reader A short video demonstrating how screen readers assist people who are blind navigate the web and interact with the electronic page. [QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media] http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/intro.asp

MozBraille Self-voicing and Braille output based on the Mozilla browser. http://mozbraille.mozdev.org/

MultiWeb Browser for users with multiple disabilities, including speech engine and text enlargement. Works with switch devices and touch screens. http://www.deakin.edu.au/mis/multiweb/mwIndex.htm

PnC Net Magnifying and self-voicing web browser. http://www.jbliss.com/pncNet.html

Portset WebTalk Internet Browser Portset WebTalk browser and ISP, used with KeySpeak screen reader. http://www.portset.co.uk/webtalk.htm

pwWebSpeak A self-voicing (speaking) web browser. http://www.soundlinks.com/pwgen.htm

Simply Web 2000 Speech friendly, speech enabled, with features that allow easy navigation of complex pages by blind users. http://www.econointl.com/sw/

SpeakOn A free self-voicing suite with web browser, Internet radio player, DAISY book reader and access to talking newspapers. http://www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm

System Access to Go Online screenreader, free, available from any Internet-connected Windows machine. http://www.satogo.com/

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 A recommendation from the W3C for how to designing user agents to lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities. http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT/

The Wanna-Be Web Browser Apple Mac text-only browser. http://mindstory.com/wb2/

WebAnywhere Online service that lets you navigate web pages as with a screenreader, but works just by navigating to the WebAnywhere site. No installation or software required. http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/

WebbIE Web browser and other related utilities for blind and visually-impaired screen-reader users. http://www.webbie.org.uk

WebFormator Works with Internet Explorer and provides an accessible text-only re-presentation of a web page for a user's screen reader. http://www.webformator.com/englisch/index.php

Current Browsers and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 An article by Patrick H. Lauke for the Web Standards Project, examining how well today's browsers adhere to the guidelines from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. (May 20, 2007) http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/current-browsers-uaag10/