TR35: Jeffrey Bigham
From: Technology Review - September/October 2009 - page 64
By: Stephen Cass

Free service to help blind people navigate the Web

As a graduate student at the University of Washington, Jeffrey Bigham created
Web­Anywhere, a free screen reader that can be used with practically any Web
browser on any operating system--no special software required. Users start at
http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu; from there, they can use keyboard
commands to navigate to any Web page. While other screen readers synthesize
speech from text locally, WebAnywhere fetches speech from a central server
and sends the audio to the user's computer. 

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Links:
Jeffrey P. Bigham
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jbigham/

Improving Access for Blind Web Users
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/events/colloquia/20090401-jeffreybigham.html

Helping the Blind Use the Web from Anywhere
http://span.state.gov/wwwfspjanfeb0959.pdf

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Jeff Bigham of the University of Washington demonstrates WebAnywhere, which
allows the visually impaired to use a Web browser on public terminals without
the need to install or configure special accessibility software.  

Video: 
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=411