On closer examination however, it becomes obvious that speech-enabling applications is in fact the only way to provide appropriate spoken feedback to the user. Further, the implementation strategy used, providing appropriate hooks to key functions in an application, is a powerful technique for speech-enabling applications. We justify this as- sertion in the following paragraphs. I have used screen-readers for the last 5 years. 6 ffl Perform the computation.
Conventional software assumes that the only mode of providing output is via a visual display.
The screen-reading approach retrofits spoken output to this design in order to provide access to these applications. The design used in Emacspeak can also be described as follows. Dr. Jim Thatcher describes his IBM ScreenReader as an interpreter that executes specific scripts to provide application specific feedback. This makes IBM ScreenReader 6 one of the most powerful screen access systems. Mapping GUIs to auditory interfaces.