Gilles Casse wrote:
Yes a next stage for Oralux is to offer a possibly light and
stable GUI environment.
Are you expecting to use one of the light-weight desktops like IceWM or
XFCE?
Indeed in Oralux 0.7 alpha, our audio menu is still mostly based on
pre-recorded messages. The external softwares (pppconfig,
knoppix-mkimage,...) are rendered by Yasr though. The Dialog software
was rewritten for text to speech rendering.
Oralux 2.0 is expected to be a fully accessible solution, it could be
different from a screen-centric solution for example.
I guess giving users multiple options is good if possible. Some people
prefer a pure text-based interface, while others need features from the
GUI setup. I can imagine that accessing doc files or pdf files can pose
some challenges. Hopefully the scriptability of the Orca screen reader
will make for a much better user experience in the GUI environment.
For screen readers such as Yasr or Speakup, there is a vast possible
work for interpreting the displayed data, giving if possible a little
bit more meaning, semantic to the displayed data. I think that this is
the Emacspeak approach. A future and powerful Text transcoder can be
also helpful under a GUI based environment for better interpreting a
scanned page or a badly designed web page.
So we are really hoping that Orca will do this. You can write different
scripts to help it work better with different programs.
GNU/Linux Accessibility also needs multilingual softwares
for summarizing texts, so that the user has a fast access to the
information, and spell checkers since when we rely on Speech, the typos can
become more frequent. We have good spell checkers, but they seem to me
not very easy to use under Speech.
Hm, that is an interesting challenge to think about. I'm sure the
usability of spell checkers could be made better generally. How would
people prefer to work with a piece of text? Type it in first and then
run a spell check before sending it off or saving or should spell
checking happen on the fly?
Some synthesisers use dictionaries to improve pronunciation right?
Perhaps the screen reader should say words which are not in the
dictionary with distortion or different pitch? That way you could listen
to the text and easily spot misspellings. There also needs to be the
option to add new words obviously.
- Henrik
btw, is it bad to reply in-line on this list? Is it better to write the
reply separately?
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