Hello, I am blind myself and thus search for ways to improve my experience of Slimdevices products. First of all I want to point out that being able to use my music collection via a web interface is a huge step in the right direction. Compared to rather blindly picking a cd from a shelve it is wonderful.
However there are some issues left: - I need a loud and somewhat cumbersome computer (notebook) in my listening room. This is somewhat undesirable since I need power wires and possibly other things. - I have to use a web interface that even when using skins that are less sophisticated than the default is somewhat uneasy to use for blind people. I would rather prefer a human readable form of the command line interface allready present in Squeeze Centre. - Using the IR-remote bypasses all this issues for sighted people. However it will not be useful for blind people. Having the player output spoken or other accustic feedback is not an option. We could do this via the server but we would interrupt the listening experience. Now what came to my mind is the jive hardware platform. It is linux based and speech output should be rather managable since it has a head phones jack or even better a speaker. I took a look at the UI description in the slimdevices wiki and found that the output is well structured i.e top line main frame bottom line for status and things. It doesn't contain much graphics and we could possibly implement alternative descriptions for status icons. What do you guys think? Cheers Jeronimo -- jaysung ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaysung's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12375 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42297 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
