for the blind (3 products)

4BlindMice 1.4 (Shareware, $48)

4BlindMice is a Real Time Screen Reading talking and singing mouse designed to work with your existing screen reader program. Most screen readers treat Windows like a big list. I think your mind's eye doesn't get the respect it deserves. Some run their hands over things, some run their eyes over things. It's the brain that puts it all together. How would you like to run your hands over your computer screen and get the big picture? How would you like to drive your mouse full speed across the screen, knowing in real time where you are and what you're flying over? Crazy? Impossible? It's here. The Windows graphic user interface was designed with your mind's eye in mind. It's time to plug in your mouse and claim it.

Metris 1.0 (Shareware, $15)

Metris is a Musical Tetris game. It does not interfere with or depend upon any particular speech engines. It just assumes a screen reader is present. Beating this game leaves you better off, intuitively able to quickly recognize scales, modes and chords. No jargon, just music. Anyone can do it... but how well? Do you have what it takes to become a Metris Master?

SayPad 1.0 (Freeware)

SayPad, the freeware talking text editor can read you a good book or help you write one, using SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech (included). It can convert Text to MP3 for a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into well named MP3 files. You can fit huge files into it like the whole Bible for instance, (In fact it has a filter you can turn on that skips over verse numbers to let you hear it like a story.) Say Pad is a keyboard driven talking text editor. Most of the controls are similar to any notepad. There are minor differences. It has some audio commands, such as hear block, and line read, and can read to you like a story. It lets you set the start and end of the selection block but if you move your position while the shift key is down, it will make the new block to be what you have just painted. I know of no upper limit to how much text it can hold. You can control how it automatically handles spacing when you cut and paste by using the auto spacing feature of the menu. If you want to hear something