Hi again,
Kiran Kaja <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, the two news items about Nokia's tactile feedback
> and indoor navigation project are only research ideas. I met
> with the team who were working on the indoor navigation
> project a couple of months ago. It is an excellent idea but
> we will never know if any of these efforts see the light of
> the day. And anyway, I fail to understand how these projects
> will help a disabled person use a mobile phone effectively
> without paying extra money to do so.
Research ideas are the ones taken forward to create practical applications.
While these ideas do not guarantee accessibility, they offer additional
inducement to stick to a platform besides the obvious use of a screen reader. I
believe that Nokia will eventually pay some attention to accessibility, but
that it won't be enough to reach the level of usability VoiceOver provides on
iOS devices.
Speaking of iOS devices, have you noticed that VoiceOver has a Hindi voice as
one of the options?
The voice is called Hindi, but she actually speaks English in a sort of Indian
accent. She also pronounces numbers in Hindi and reads out keyboard letters as
their Hindi equivalent. This is quite interesting especially since iOS does not
support Hindi.
> There will always be perceived security vulnerabilities
> when someone is trying to develop a screen reader for an
> environment which doesn't have a platform accessibility API
> as they have to resort to a number of unconventional
> techniques to get access the kernel. As I understand it,
> this is what is happening with the Speakup discussions you
> pointed me to. And again, Similar objections will be raised
> with any application which has to have global read-write
> access to certain system files.
Yes, Gnome currently uses corba for accessibility. Consequently Orca needs
orbitrc file to be installed which is frowned upon by developers.
> Finally, secured PDF. This is easy as I happen to find
> myself working for the company who are blamed for inventing
> the format in the first place <smile>.
Hmmm, so you might be the one reading my future complaints regarding Flash and
Air.
:-)
> Last but not least, the idea is not to blame any individual
> or team at Google or any other organisation. Accessibility
> has to be an organisation-wide initiative.
Agreed
Merry Christmas
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