Hey Sandra! I figured out how to do TextToSpeech using FreeTTS and ColdFusion, but is this even a helpful feature, accessibility wise?
I'm doubting it, as a screen-reader already does the job much better. Probably only helpful for the half-accessible people, where alt. versions of docs (larger text, spoken word, etc.) are better than all or nuthin, so to speak. Accessibility is interesting. Most of this is getting taken care of by the browsers now, neh? Special browsers. Better to follow the standards for the screen readers and such than to provide "extra" accessibility. Hmmm. Sounds like a cleaner solve. At any rate, if anyone's interested in text to speech, holler, I'll help. Next, speech to text... ;-) :Denny On 6/8/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except for people of course who can't see the underlines. > > If you are going to use accesskeys (and really they cause more > accessibility > problems than they solve), then you also need to create and link to an > accessibility statement for the page which gives a reference to the access > keys used and what they do. > > > Sandra Clark > ============================== > http://www.shayna.com > Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:53 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: accesskey conundrum > > I'm not a big fan of access keys because of how they interfere with the > shortcuts I've set up in my environment and much-discussed accessibility > issues, but when I do use them on forms for whatever reason, I tend to > follow the Windows UI standard of underlining the letter in the label > that, > in conjunction with the Alt key activates the shortcut. Most of the > people > that are likely to use the shortcuts generally seem to recognize the > convention, from what I've seen. > > On 6/8/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Damien... > > > > I like your idea of jumping to the first field in each section. > > Because honestly. Who's going to remember every key command for your > > form? Just give them 5 or 10 and they'll be happy. > > > > <!----------------//------ > > andy matthews > > web developer > > certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 615.370.1530 x737 > > --------------//---------> > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:01 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: OT: accesskey conundrum > > > > > > Here's the story. I'm working on a series of somewhat long forms that > > I'd like to make completely accessible using accesskeys in addition to > > other basics (labels, pure CSS layout, etc). The problem is that I'm > > ending up with more fields than accesskeys makes sense for, and there > > are multiple fields that could/should use the same key. One idea I > > had was to have one accesskey defined for the top field in each > > fieldset then just let them tab between the different fields, but that > > isn't great in e.g. OSX that has fairly crappy keyboard navigation > > anyway. So what do y'all do to overcome this for your accessible > > forms? Thanks. > > > > -- > > Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu > > Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 #include > > <stdjoke.h> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243004 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
