announcing: Rita The Reader

[Alex Snow]

You can also get readit from ftp.blazie.com in one of the subdirectories. I
think a lot of the stuff there disappeared after the murger but it all seems
back now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debee Norling" <NorlingDeborah at fhda.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: RE: announcing: Rita The Reader


> The program that people are incorrectly referring to as "access" is
actually
> called Readit. It's a DOS program that works well with all screen access.
It
> can be gotten from simtel or in the extras directory on most Kurzweil
> CD-roms. Don't worry, DOS software in the extras directory is free to
> legally copy and use.
>
> As for continuous reading, my Dectalk express with just Cat seems to work
> quite well reading continuously. Of course, it's hard to stop and find
your
> place; something Rita will fix for you.
>
> I've found that one way to get through a ton of documentation is to attach
> an FM transmitter to a mixer, then plug all your sound sources in to the
> mixer. This way I can listen to my sound card output, my hardware synthes
> and my ham radio and even my VCR while I do housework and garden.
>
> --Debee
>
>
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