Screen Reader/2

Screen Reader/2 is IBM's access system for OS/2, providing blind users access to the graphical user interface (GUI) of Presentation Manager, to Windows programs running under OS/2, and to text mode DOS and OS/2 programs. Screen Reader/2 is a completely redesigned and rewritten follow-on to IBM's Screen Reader Version 1.2 for DOS.

Releases

 * 1.0 (Sep 1992)
 * 1.1 (Sep 1993)


 * 1.2.1
 * 2.0 (1995)

Documentation

 * IBM Screen Reader/2 User's Guide (srd2useg.txt)
 * IBM Screen Reader/2 Reference (srd2ref.txt Screen Reader/2 Profile Access Language Reference)

Articles

 * Jim Thatcher: The Problems and Challenges Of the Graphical User Interface - NFB (Nov 1993)
 * Jim Thatcher: How to Make OS/2 Talk ... And Why. Access to OS/2 with IBM Screen Reader/2 - OS/2 World Conference (Jul 1994)
 * Jim Thatcher: Screen Reader/2 - Programmed Access to the GUI - ICCHP (Sep 1994)
 * Jim Thatcher: Screen Reader/2: Access to OS/2 and the Graphical User Interface - ASSETS '94 (Oct 1994)
 * Catherine K. Laws: Achieving Greater Accessibility for Blind User of OS/2 - (Feb 1995)
 * Richard S. Schwerdtfeger: Making the GUI Talk
 * Joseph J. Lazzaro: Hearing Graphics for the First Time
 * Janet J. Barron: Chaotic Progress

Links
Announcement Letters
 * (1992-06-23) IBM Screen Reader/2
 * (1993-08-24) IBM Screen Reader/2 Version 1.21
 * (1995-11-14) IBM Screen Reader/2 Version 2.0

Deskthority wiki
 * IBM Screen Reader/2 keypad