WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. No $1000 software program required!
WebAnywhere runs on any machine regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed. This is its advantage over existing products like SA-to-Go.
Please read our WebAnywhere Paper for more information about the system.
We have recently released the source of WebAnywhere as an open source project. Please visit this page if you'd like to contribute to the development of WebAnywhere or would like to host WebAnywhere on your own server.
webanywhere.googlecode.com
Below is a moderately accessible Flash player that presents WebAnywhere hosted on YouTube. Below the Flash movie is a link to a larger movie that presents the same content, but requires a larger download. We will release an audio only version of the movie soon. We apologize for the delay.
(view the full-size
video - 211 MB)
WebAnywhere is scheduled for a preliminary alpha release by end of May, 2008. If you want to be made aware of announcements related to the system (surely not more than one every couple of weeks), please send email to jbigham@cs.washington.edu.
