By library software do you mean in-house cataloging or academic databases you subscribe to? I've used ZoomText foryears through its subsequent versions and while I have encountered some difficulty in interaction through time I find the bugs are fewer. I could forward this to our librarian...
Bonnie Odiorne, Ph.D. 
Writing Center Director, Adjunct Professor, Post University, Waterbutry, CT

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From: Lynda Lincoln <llincoln at scoe.net>
To: technology at nifl.gov; calix at listproc.sjsu.edu
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:26:40 PM
Subject: [Technology 1021] Re: Library software and assistive technology

-----Forwarded Message on behalf of Elizabeth Hart-----


>From: Elizabeth Hart <ehart at csb-cde.ca.gov>

>Sent: May 18, 2007 11:17 AM

>To: LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, CALIB POST <calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu>

>Subject: Library software and assistive technology

>

>This is a long shot, but has anyone used assistive technology -- e.g.,

>JAWS for Windows (screen reading software), ZoomText (screen

>magnification software), etc. -- with their library automation software?

>

>

>If yes, what library automation software and assistive technology

>software have you used together? Does the assistive technology software

>work well with the library software? What problems have you encountered?

>Any tips or tricks to get the assistive technology software to work?

>

>I've asked library software vendors how well their software works with

>assistive technology software, but most haven't even heard of assistive

>technology software, let alone know whether it will work (or not) with

>their library catalogs. Technically, of course, the library software is

>supposed to be compatible but it is almost never that straightforward.

>

>Elizabeth Hart

>Library Technical Assistant

>California School for the Blind

>Fremont, CA 94536

>ehart at csb-cde.ca.gov 

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