Hi Darragh, Are you familiar with the KDE Accessibility mailing list & community? See <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subscribe at https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility The folks there would be in the best position to address your question.
Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hello, > > I'm sorry but out of curiosity I have a quick question. > > >From looking at the KDETTS page shown below it looks like the plan is not to > necessarily have a screen reader for KDE but to try to get indevidual > application developers to include support for speech output via the KDETTS > sub-system. I may be reading that wrong. If so, could someone enlighten me? > It would seem like an absolutely crazy idea to go down that route so I'm > sure I'm missing something. > > In case I'm not, How do the developers of KDETTS think that developers of > applications will know what information needs to be spoken in their > applications? Consistancy will go out the window! > > http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ > Quote from page: > It is hoped that more programmers will begin adding speech capabilities to > their KDE programs using KTTS. Eventually, when Qt 4 is distributed, it is > hoped that Screen Readers will be adapted to use KTTS. > End of quote. > > Second quote: > Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications to > generate speech output. > End of quote. > > Quote 3: > KTTS -- KDE Text-to-Speech -- is a subsystem within the KDE desktop for > conversion of text to audible speech. KTTS is currently under development > and aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE applications to > provide speech output. > End of quote. > > > Darragh Ó Héiligh > Website development, Application and O/S Technical Support > Website: http://www.digitaldarragh.com > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +353-87-767-0464 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
