To suzyQ_darnit  and other readers,

If there were problems with IE v7, they were in the Beta which we did not use or take part in the study. 

We did, however, download v7 as soon as it was offered as an update.  I have never had the first problem with it.  I loved all of the new features and learned to use them by playing but then I like to play and understand what I am playing with.  To me it’s been an easy adjustment I have never had the first worry about.  It has an improved magnification, improved tabs for open pages, and improved favorites plus I imagine more I don’t even know about.  Don’t be afraid of it, just jump in.

I will tell you we do all of our updates on time, we do a regular scan of our computer using the Micosoft One Care which is a purchase.  We also use a marvel find, called Registry Mechanic, also a purchase, which seems to have fixed my intermittant blue screens and trashed bits and pieces of unwanted files from uninstalls.  My computer is now running neat, clean and efficient as it ever has. 

Becca

About CLiCk, Speak

http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/CLiCk,
Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It is part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite of products, it features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages – hence its name.

Unlike Fire Vox which is designed for visually impaired users, CLiCk, Speak is designed for sighted users who want text-to-speech functionality. It doesn’t identify elements or announce events – two features that are very important for visually impaired users but very annoying for sighted users. It also has a simplified, mouse driven interface that is designed to be easy for users familiar with point-and-click graphical user interfaces. Like Fire Vox, CLiCk, Speak works on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux; and Fire Vox has multilingual support, making it great for users who are trying to learn a foreign language and need to hear foreign language web sites read out to them for practice. For a complete description of features, please visit the Features section.

If you’re a sighted user who wants to have web pages read to you because you have cognitive issues (for example, dyslexia), because you have literacy issues (like me – I can understand spoken Mandarin Chinese just fine, but reading is difficult for me), because you want to reduce eyestrain and listen to a web page being read, etc., then you are likely to prefer CLiCk, Speak over Fire Vox.
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gTranslate 0.3.1 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/918?id=918
by Pau Tomàs

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text…

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

gTranslate is not affiliated with Google Inc. in any way and WORKS with Firefox. 
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Map+ 1.1.0 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2394
by Rahim Sonawalla

View a Yahoo! map of a selected address without having to open a new window or tab.

Currently, Map+ only supports addresses within the United States (sorry).  WORKS WITH Firefox