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>>Wade: Hi. I'm Wade Wingler with the Indata Project at Easter Seals Crossroad in Indiana.Today
we are doing a screen capture here, because I want to show you something
cool that kinda turns your web browser into at least a basic screen reader.
So, today we are going to spend a little time talking about ChromeVox. Now a quick disclaimer
here, ChromeVox is not a full- fledged screen reader. It doesn't give you
independent keyboard access to all the things that you need, but it does some
pretty cool things. So, we are going to spend a little time here looking at ChromeVox. I'm
going to minimize my camera real fast. So right now I am running the Chrome
browser on my computer. And if you need to get that if you go to Google.com/chrome
it will take you to a page where you can download this free web browser for your mac, for windows,
for Linux whatever your trying to use there. So, if you don't have
Chrome it's free, it's great. Go ahead and download it and try that. Then I'm
going to take us to ChromeVox.com and when you go to ChromeVox.com there's a place that
you can install ChromeVox and it becomes a plugin then for your Chrome browser.
so, if I click on ChromeVox it will go through the install process. Now I've
already added it to Chrome and so it's telling me that here, that I've already done the installation.
To activate it and this isn't keyboard independent and I wish it were.
You come over to Chrome. You come down to preferences. Then you go and click
on extentions right there and then you click on enable to enable ChromeVox so that it will
start talking. >>Computer Voice: google chrome added text
>>Wade: It starts talking right away to let me know that I can type in my search term.
And let's say I want to look for easter seals tech which is our website.
When I go there (computer saying eastersealstech.com)and now I've got access to
read this web page. So, I am going to use what they call the ChromeVox keys and on a
MAC that's control-command and I am going to use my right arrow to navigate this
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with Disabilities by Lauren on February 12, 2013.
>>Wade: And so you can see as I'm moving around it gives me a visual indicator of where the
text is being read. It also reads it out loud and I can adjust the speed and
the rate and some of the characteristics of the voice. Now again ChromeVox isn't
an end-all be-all solution for everybody who needs a screen reader, but if you need a little
bit of screen reading in your web browser that's a real useful way to have
access to that. So, I would encourage you to get in there play around with it,
try it out, check out ChromeVox. It's C-H-R-O-M-E-V-O-X.com. It's free for your Chrome browser. And that's
your tech tip for this week. I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA
project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana.