“The goal of the WebInsight Project is to learn what impedes access to the web and develop technology to improve access.”  It is some of this technology that I’m writing about today.

WebAnywhere from WebInsight is a web based screen reader that offers  blind people access to the internet from any computer with a sound card.  This is a screen reader that provides access only to the internet, but it means that a blind user does not have to be at his or her own computer in order to go online.  WebAnywhere is open source software, and it is free to use.

As a light-dependent blogger, I’m not really competent to evaluate a screen reader for blind internet users.  So, I’ll embed a video that does a terrific job of presenting WebAnywhere.