Talk:List of screen readers

Product description
I've removed some boilerplate product description from the entry for Thunder. It doesn't add useful information, and if everyone drops by and does this the page will look like an advertising catalogue, and I don't think that's what a List is for! Perhaps an entry on Thunder would be better? Alasdairking

Links on this page
Authors, try not to add links to pages that are trying to sell software, since it just creates work for editors. Conversely, editors could you please check that links are in fact trying to sell something before removing them on those grounds? For example, the links to discontinued product information (outSPOKEN), the WayBack archive for sites that no longer exist (WindowBridge), and to a university's software directory for an ancient piece of shareware (TinyTalk) are clearly (I would have thought) not commercial links in that sense and primarily of historical interest. If editors disagree with me on this, would replacing the outSPOKEN and TinyTalk links with WebCite links be an acceptable compromise? Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis 09:24, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Would you clarify, with reference to the Wikipedia policy documents? For example, if I were detailing JAWS, I would link to the Freedom Scientific website, since they develop it. If this is incorrect, what is the correct approach? Many thanks, Alasdair King 4 July 2007

Market-Share
Given this large list, I'd like to see a short-list of high market-share screen readers; I came to this page hoping to find out what the major players are besides JAWS, and I'm guessing that's a common reason to come here. It also seems like relevant information given that this is supposed to be a comparison of screen readers, and not just a list. If anyone has a good source for market-share information, I would welcome the addition to the page (either as a separate short list, or as an additional column in the big table).

Cheers, Eeblet (talk) 18:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I would second that - I arrived here hoping to find enough information to prioritize which screen readers we should be testing our software with. Would be very useful to know usage levels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.77.66 (talk) 09:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

BRLTTY
It's listed with screen readers, but it seems to be a Braille display driver for UNIX. That is something different than a screen reader. 217.166.94.1 (talk) 10:07, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * According to Screen reader "A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) that renders text and image content as speech or braille output."
 * So it belongs here. But yes a distinction between braille output and tts would be great. Joshix 204 (talk) 18:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

WebVisum
Um, if FireVox is listed (and it's basically a browser plug-in) then should Web Visum also be listed? It's certainly notable-- it solves many CAPTCHAs, which might be it's most famous feature, and uses a community to enhance its abilities (one person can add tags and labels to mis-labeled objects and other WebVisum users can get those labels/tags as well). webvisum.com is the home page. 217.166.94.1 (talk) 10:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * edit, it's not a reader itself though, but then again, MAGic is listed... 217.166.94.1 (talk) 10:28, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

VoiceOver Utility
Is there a reason why Mac OS X's VoiceOver Utility isn't mentioned on this page? In the latest WebAIM survey 8.9% of the respondents listed it as their primary screen reader and 14.6% listed it as a screen reader commonly used. See Screen Reader User Survey Results. I have not added it to the page because I wasn't sure if there was a particular reason why it's not noted. --Rebecca (talk) 03:28, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Android?
There is also TTS software for Android available. For example: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dhristov.si and https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aps.speakanything I don't feel qualified to comment on them, but should they be added to the table? --GhostInTheMachine (talk) 12:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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Readers for Wikipedia texts
Does exist the readers specially designed to read texts of Wikipedia site? -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 05:13, 6 April 2018 (UTC)