Free Thunder Screen Reader
Thunder is a free screen reader with text-only web browser (Webbie) for people with a visual impairment. There’s a good video of it being demonstrated at www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCs48NjhHRg.
Note that a screen reader is a different animal to a text reader. A screen reader is usually designed for a visually impaired person and generally reads anything on the screen. If you have sight, screen readers can be irritating because they talk all the time and read out information you don’t care about, and so someone who can see but has reading difficulties would usually opt for a text reader. With a text reader, you point at the text you want to read, or select it, and then the text reader speaks it out. Examples of text readers are WordTalk (www.wordtalk.org.uk); Read and Write Gold (www.texthelp.com); Browsealoud (www.browsealoud.com); ClaroRead (www.clarosoftware.com).
