chrmaury

NVAccess.org manages the NVDA screenreader which is free and open source. It's what I rely on to use a computer.

It's also stealing massive market share from JAWS.

Have you published this list yet? I'd be very interested to take a look.

Very excited to see more people working on accessible applications!

How is this different from TextDetective, or other OCR apps for the blind?

The accessibility community is very small and highly networked. I can introduce you to individual developers if you are interested. I guess HN doesn't allow Private Messages, but you can find me on linkedin linkedin.com/in/chrmaury

Siri was built--and still relies--on Dragon Mobile Speech Recognition from Nuance

Does anyone know of a link to download this resource? I'm not confident that it will remain active, especially after all of this attention.

You're right. iOS has a feature called screen curtain, which turns your screen off while using Voice Over. Great for battery life (and privacy).