OutSpoken (styled outSPOKEN) was one of the first commercially available screen readers for a graphical user interface (GUI).
Its notable innovations were the use of an off-screen model[1] and the mouse pointer as a review cursor.
The original Macintosh version was written by Wes Boyd and Bruce Berkhalter at Berkeley Systems.
[2] OutSpoken for Windows was developed primarily by Ben Drees and Peter Korn, with user interface design by Marc Sutton and Joshua Miele.
In September, 2005, Optelec acquired the assets of ALVA BV., the parent company of ALVA Access Group.