Last night I became curious to know if there was a screen reading solution for KDE because, evidently, this is what mythTV is based on. So here are a few links primarily chosen because of their relevance to KDE, but informative anyway.
http://lists.kde.org/?i=1157117495.8207.173.camel%20()%20localhost a post describing the basics of a screen reader built on a "Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface", or AT-SPI. The AT-SPI is supported by toolkits such as GNOME's GTK+, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, and it's also supported by OpenOffice and Mozilla. The latest hot topic on this particular list is how to get it into KDE's Qt. http://www.cio.noaa.gov/hpcc/access/linuxacs.htm A list of speech resources for linux, There is a link on this page to a kde accessibility site. http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki/Software another linux accessibility page. The upshot seems to be that something like lsr is not yet available for kde, but I might be wrong. Either way, it seems as though the On 12/4/06, Rusty Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
Alright, so maybe what I should have said is that i couldn't think of anything else to say, so I was going to make up an excuse so I didn't have to admit that. :-) I think this whole speech issue isn't as difficult as it might seem because it seems, from my limited research, that the major guis all have features built in to the architecture to facilitate development of speech and other accessibility aps. On 12/4/06, Roger Rustad <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm gonna leave off here because I don't want to bore people. > > I just wanted to explain this issue a little bit because I imagine it > > must be a little frustrating for people to know that a particular > > function is available, but not understand how exactly it could be put > > to use. > > I seriously doubt that this bores people on this list, Rusty. > > Honestly, I don't see "your" issues as very different than "our" issues: > we join clubs like this in order to explore cool and fun ways to > interact with technology. > > In pursuit of "your" problem, we all can't help but learn various > fundamentals of how various *nix-related things work. >
