As a disabled person using speech recognition for the past 20 years, I
see absolutely nothing in your project addressing my needs and I'm
feeling left out. in fact, you are reinventing the same old
accessibility framework that was first published in roughly the early
1990s. gluing accessibility to a GUI which at best is a horrible mismatch.
Here's what I need as speech recognition user.
1) read the state of anything that can be displayed or changed via a
GUI. this is a getter function
2) change the state of anything that can be changed by a GUI. This is a
putter function.
3) do something. This is usually the action associated with a link or
button but can also drive mouse over or any other event causing an action.
4) tell me when something changes. These event notifications allow you
to use hand/mouse at the same time as speech and it lets the speech
system stay in sync with what's being displayed.
By these four simple interfaces, you eliminate the mismatch between a
GUI and a speech interface. No longer do you have to navigate through
menus and clicks and links to get to a data element which you can't even
speak because it has no name. Your grammar can short-circuit all that
and go change the data element in question.
Remember, a GUI navigation is tall and narrow, speech navigation is wide
and shallow. Don't try to force one to be the other.
If you look at the other accessibility requirements, you will see
similar mismatches and this API set or something very similar to it
would make it possible to address the needs of the new accessibility
interface and provide a simpler, more direct interface.
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