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" TTS gives Firefox the power of speech. Select text, click the button on the bottom right of Firefox window and this add-on speaks the selected text for you. Isn't it brilliant? Audio is downloadable."

"FoxVox is a simple text to voice Firefox plugin that allows you to highlight text on a web page and then have that text read back to you in a digitized voice format. T"

"FoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can also create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts. FoxVox now supports speech in many different languages. "

MITS Freedom Stick 1.0 The MITS Freedom Stick is the result of global collaboration and the leadership of Ira Socol. The design and primary technical work was all done by the Regional Support Center - Scotland North and East. We are extremely grateful for their time, effort, and generosity. Much of the support for our "Americanization," localization, and development of the accessible Firefox Browser came from the Mozilla Corporation, and Mozilla Education. The MITS Freedom Stick is designed to provide students with information and communication access on any computer using a Windows or Linux operating system. When you insert the USB Flash Drive into the computer the LearnApps software should load giving you a menu in the toolbar on the lower-right corner of the screen.

"This is an interface to YouTube designed for people who access their computers via either 2 switches (right arrow to move and left arrow to choose) or a mouse. It allows the user to use two keys/switches to navigate through a list of movies, and watch any or all of them. It currently supports watching movies from a single playlist. Hopefully browsing support will be added in soon. For now, you must use Firefox in order for it to work."

"The Texthelp Web Apps provide support tools that will work within multiple browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox) on mobile devices including iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and other mobile devices, as well as on PCs and Macs. Users will benefit from having Read&Write GOLD features they are familiar with along with instant accessibility and mobility with these powerful web support tools."

"For any student having trouble reading material on a screen, text-to-speech technologies can be wonderful. My March 2008 post, "Converting text to and from speech for accessibility and convenience" addressed some of the software options available today for text to speech functionality. Of those, "CLiCk, Speak" is probably the main one to check out. It's cross-platform, works in the FireFox browser as a plug-in, and is free. In addition to those text-to-speech options, the latest version of the Macintosh operating system (OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard") includes the built-in ability to convert highlighted text in many applications into an audio file. Here is an example of a file I created while writing this post, of this paragraph."