It is interesting as far as it goes, but leaves a lot out. I got my first computer, an apple 22 e back in 1983, used an echo 2 speedch board and programs written by Bill jGrimm of computer aids. He later wrote a screen reader program for ms dos machines. The company latter was bought out by gw micro who wrote screen readers and programs for years. They aren't even mentioned. I use nvda and still use their screen reader, window-eyes which still does some things better. Their dos reader was called vocal-eyes. They were gobbled up by freedom scientific around 3 or 4 years ago.

Not sure if this is necessarily the lost history; I think I knew most of this before back when I read the article. Also I believe there was another thread discussing this where people said they wished it went into more detail about other early screenreaders. Overall a good article though for what it is.

Wasn’t this posted by rumster?

Oh I read this recently! It’s fantastic!