Speakwire — Online RSS Reader

Done by the same folks who are behind Spee­gle, the talk­ing search engine, Speak­wire is a free online tool that reads aloud a rss feed. From their press release:

Most peo­ple asso­ciate com­puter speech with visu­ally impaired users. I think that is miss­ing the point and we set out to demon­strate just how uni­ver­sal speech is. It’s the near­est eqi­va­lent to a com­mon cur­rency and can be exchanged and under­sood as eas­ily. Speech is might­ier than the pen.

(via Robin Good)

Accessible Search Engine

With­out a doubt, my favorite online learn­ing tool is Google where I can gen­er­ally find answers to just about what­ever real world prob­lem I hap­pen to be fac­ing at any given time. I’m not sure how acces­si­ble Google and other major search engines are (or aren’t) but I just came across YouSe­arched which bills itself as The Acces­si­ble Search. I would doubt that the qual­ity of search results is as high as the big play­ers, but some of the fea­tures may be nice for cer­tain situations.