

30 day Free Trial available for download. Includes a screen magnifier and output to Braille devices. Supports MSAA and Flash Īvailable to buy or download trial. Though it is developed by the GNOME project, it is the most popular screen reader for Unix like systems with graphical environments other than GNOME, like KDE or Unity.

It supports AT-SPI, so it works with the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice/LibreOffice and GTK+, KDE/Qt and Java Swing/SWT applications. The development of Orca was started by Sun Microsystems as part of the GNOME project with contributions from many community members, but since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, Orca turned into a completely community-driven project. Supports Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird. It also supports multi-tab navigation.īundled with recent versions of Windows, this basic screen reader makes use of MSAA. Metalmouth is a simplified open source screen-reader application which can be used to read out any HTML5 web pages and interact with most HTML5 input controls. Speech magnifier with low-vision speech capabilities. Supports MSAA, Java Access Bridge (OpenOffice), per line reading from Win32 classes 'Edit'(Notepad) and 'RichEdit'(Wordpad), MS Word. Includes support for MSAA, the Java Access Bridge, and PDF.Ī visual screen reader, which highlights the object and text being read. Screen magnifier with low-vision speech capabilities. Turns Emacs into a 'complete audio desktop'. Makes a complete audio desktop, including web access with JavaScript support. Supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and the Java Access Bridge. Current screen readers Screen readerĪvailable to download part of most Linux distributionsĬhrome OS or, with a speech processor, Linux, Mac, WindowsĬhromeVox is a screen reader for Chrome and Chrome OS.
