And the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a text-only option for screen readers. Warp 4 has speech-recognition capabilities that will aid visually impaired users, Netscape said. N.J. It is a speaking Web browser designed to understand Hypertext Markup Language pages. Judith Dixon, consumer relations officer at Washington-based National Libraries Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, is a blind user of BigYellow. Things are getting better all the time.
Computers can do so much for the handicapped.
On one side of this scenario are commercial software giants such as Microsoft Corp., whose steady flow of graphical applications and Windows operating system enhancements do not include standard hooks for tying into software for braille, speech output and other adaptive systems. And each time a new version is released, Simpson must wait again for updated adaptive software. Just when something comes out for us that should work with Windows, there's always something new. Mich. Like other firms in the specialized world of computerized accessibility products, Artic has been bedeviled by application mapping problems. The primary source of these woes are the multiple program interfaces commercial developers randomly built into mainstream Windows-based packages.