Special Note: Before windows came along most folks never thought of wanting
    or needing a graphic user interface. Just like the taste of chocolate,  it is
    impossible to know what one has been missing unless one tries it.   Please
    take the time to share 4BlindMice with someone who would benefit from it
    I truly believe they will thank you.

Schools for the Visually Impaired: Click here for free licensing.

"4 Blind Mice" (PADXML)(shareware) Now Only $45
    4BlindMice is a mouse-driven real-time screen-reader designed to work with your existing screen reader program.  Most screen readers treat Windows like a big list.  I think your mind's eye doesn't get the respect it deserves.  Some run their hands over things, some run their eyes over things.  It's the brain that puts it all together.  How would you like to run your hands over your computer screen and get the big picture?  How would you like to drive your mouse full speed across the screen, knowing as you go where you are and what you're flying over?  Crazy?  Impossible?  It's here.  There are keyboard shortcuts and there are mouse shortcuts.  You've mastered the keyboard ones. As you mind maps your desktop and favorite programs you'll be well on your way to taking advantage of the mouse shortcuts, graphically navigating and manipulating windows in real time.

NOTE:
All accessibility products can have interaction issues, but 4BlindMice is self healing.  If the rare event of a glitch, please run it again so it can learn to avoid any traps.  It should have itself running smooth as silk in no time.

"SayPad" (PADXML)(freeware)
   SayPad is a freeware talking text editor that can read you a good book or help you write one, using the latest speech technology.  It carefully installs the SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech engine from a compact 8.2 megabyte download.  This is a quick and painless way to get the SAPI5 TTS onto your system, plus it does cool things like read to you with natural phrasing as a person would.  You can fit huge files into it like the whole Bible for instance, which you can prove by downloading it below.  (In fact it has a filter you can turn on that skips over verse numbers to let you hear it like a story.)  SayPad can now convert Text to Audio, even a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into separate, well named Audio files you can burn onto a CD.
 
 

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