Has anyone developed an Alexa skill or with Google Dialogflow
Hello, In the next semester I might be doing a uni course on conversational interfaces, which would include developing a chatbot. The professor contacted me and said she is considering us developing either an Alexa skill or using Google Dialogflow.
If any screen reader users here have developed using either framework, could you please comment on the accessibility.
From reading briefly about Alexa skill development, the process consists of defining a set of intents with corresponding slots, slot types, and utterance, which is specified as json. Looking at the json schema it is pretty straightforward to write manually using a code editor. Here I would just require that the web interface for uploading the schema is at least accessible enough to submit the schema.
After that it is just associated with a web service that takes requests as json and returns json responses. Typically this service is hosted as an AWS Lambda, which supports a lot of different languages, so hopefully setting that up isn't blocked by a completely inaccessible interface. Once setup, I am guessing it is just coding like for anything else.
I haven't looked into Google Dialogflow at all. Has anyone used it? I have used Google Cloud Platform quite a bit over the summer for a job and remember the accessibility being very poor, so I am expecting setting up and working with Dialogflow to be equally poor.
Any insights on how accessible working with these technologies is, things to watch out for, and useful workarounds are greatly appreciated!
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