>Tom: I know a totally blind man who surfs the net with software that reads
>aloud any text it can find on a web page. I assume he is accustomed to the
>speech synthesizer and understands it better than we do.
Tom,
understanding speech synthesis is ot much of a problem. You can try
it (shameless plug): Install my Talking Moose and after a week or so
you'll get used to the quirks of your particular MacinTalk voice.
>We could easily do much better. Some rather simple code could allow reading
> >from each field in turn: "field 7 of 9; 'blah blah blah...'"; "Button 2 of
>three; 'press to continue'". Pictures, however, might require a thousand
>words to describe- still, the voice simulator could announce the title of
>any pictures it finds: "picture 1 of 1; 'seashore at sunset'"...
This is something that could be easily achieved in FreeScript. It
can even be done in HyperTalk. Something like:
on mouseEnter
speak the short name of the target
if the target contains "field" then
speak target -- speaks contents
end if
end mouseEnter
You could certainly refine this. Might be a nice UFP project.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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