For non-deaf/blind users are there significant advantages of Braille
over TTS such that TTS would not be a viable solution for providing
text descriptions to a Braille user? My initial hunch is that there
is not.
I am asking because if cloud based TTS, as suggested by Peter Korn,
is an acceptable solution for providing text descriptions and if
it's also acceptable for Braille users then there is no need to
design a means to synch between the UA and a client based AT.
Do we have enough experience with cloud based TTS to know that this
is an acceptable solution? If not, what is the current status of
development and deployment?
One concern might be latency. This is a high priority issue for AT
users.
Pete
This is in response to one of the many threads inside the "next
changes to IAccessible2" thread...
On 6/22/2011 11:51 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
Hi Peter, What is DAISY solution for Braille users?
I'm also interested in pointers to web/cloud TTS solutions.
Thanks, Pete
On 6/22/2011 11:40 AM, Peter Korn wrote:
Rich, Sylvia, all,
I think we have identified the key use case for extended
descriptions in HTML video playback: for blind people who can
hear. Deaf-blind would simply obtain all of the text (captions
& extended descriptions) and read them at their own speed.
All of this API discussion is predicated on the assumption that
the blind user's screen reader should read these extended
descriptions, with some programmatic means of pausing/continuing
video playback while the screen reader reads the text (at a
speed unknown to the video player).
But is this really the right answer? We are seeing more and
more TTS engines available, many in the cloud. Why not simply
have the video player optionally read the extended description,
pausing the video while it does so? This is how we do DAISY
book playback - we don't expect the screen reader to read the
book, we expect the book player to read the text. Also doing it
this way makes the result much more universally available. And
it opens things up for a human being to read the extended
descriptions - again similar to DAISY.
Regards,
Peter
On 6/22/2011 6:27 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
Pete,
I am looking at
accessibleDocument. Should we not do more than that for a
document interface? Should we also have features to
collect and access specific objects with a specific
element type - filtering mechanisms?
Note: I am in favor of not
unnecessarily growing the API. API changes cause a lot of
churn. However, with the FCC adopting creating new laws
based on the 21st Century Communication and Video act
there is a need for infrastructure to better support the
HTML 5 changes Silvia is working on to support video and
audio.
I am looking at the
notification mechanism for media MEDIA_TEXT_QUEUE_CHANGE.
Would it be better to have a callback registry for ATs
similar to what we did in Java? I am concerned about
potential OS scheduling issues caused by posting events to
the message queue.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
 Pete Brunet
---06/06/2011 11:12:32 PM---Hi all, Please take a look at
this and provide your feedback: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility
From: Pete Brunet <[email protected]>
To: IA2 List <[email protected]>
Date: 06/06/2011 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] next
changes to IAccessible2
Sent by: [email protected]
Hi all, Please take a look at this
and provide your feedback:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3
Thanks, Pete
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On 3/11/2011 11:10 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
Hi, Jamie. I missed Mick
suggestion on the list. It's sounds reasonable and I agree
we should try it before getting new API for this since the
issue is mostly about events.
Thank you.
Alex.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:43
AM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
Nice work; good to get the discussion going. :)
I still don't see a need for this registry API. Why not
just use IsWinEventHookInstalled(), as Mick suggested on
the IA2 list?
Thanks.
Jamie
On 12/03/2011 3:48 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
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