Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

[Peter Korn]

Sylvia, all, My point with cloud-based TTS is... there are a number of TTS engines out there.  Some open source, some commercial-but-free/cheap-to-use-over-the-web.  Wouldn't it make for a much tighter integration & more powerful UI to have a media player that generates the TTS and automatically does the pausing/unpausing?  Seems less complex than relying on screen reader vendors to support a new API that must first also be supported by the (HTML5 capable) browsers. Peter On 7/6/2011 5:23 PM, James Teh wrote: On 7/07/2011 9:44 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. While such an approach is possible, it relies on special services offered by providers and is therefore not something that a Web browser can rely on for having their content rendered. It also smells of non-standard to me, as well as requiring reliance on external services. I do indeed believe that screen reader handling of text descriptions is the best way forward. I agree for the most part, though I'm still not so keen on the pause while description is catching up behaviour. Part of this is design/implementation concerns; I'm very concerned about this tight interaction between the screen reader and the system. Generally, a screen reader is fairly passive in terms of its affect on the application without user action. Also, it could sometimes be extremely disruptive for the user. 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? It could actually be useful if the user doesn't want the disruption to the audio that audio/TTS description causes. Braille could be a nice way of silently accessing the descriptions. However, as I noted before, I think a scrolling transcript is the best way to do this. The user can always disable scrolling if they wish or scroll back to read something they missed. Jamie -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment

_______________________________________________
Accessibility-ia2 mailing list
Accessibility-ia2@lists.linuxfoundation.org
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2