Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Fwd: reorder events issue

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Surkov
Hi, Pete. I didn't find background in mozilla bugzilla, I think this feature was discussed over irc I think. IA2 list has Jamie's concern - https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2011-June/001340.html. It appears this feature should have more discussions. Thank you. Alex.

[Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Pete Brunet
For non-deaf/blind users are there significant advantages of Braille over TTS such that TTS would not be a viable solution for providing text descriptions to a Braille user? My initial hunch is that there is not. I am asking because if cloud based TTS, as suggested

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. This would require uploading the video and the text description file to a cloud service, then have the could service render the text description file as another audio track on the video and change the timing on the video at the same

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread James Teh
On 7/07/2011 9:44 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. While such an approach is possible, it relies on special services offered by providers and is therefore not something that a Web browser can rely on for having their content rendered. It

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Korn
Sylvia, all, My point with cloud-based TTS is... there are a number of TTS engines out there. Some open source, some commercial-but-free/cheap-to-use-over-the-web. Wouldn't it make for a much tighter integration more powerful UI to have a media player that

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM, James Teh ja...@nvaccess.org wrote: On 7/07/2011 9:44 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. While such an approach is possible, it relies on special services offered by providers and is therefore not something

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread James Teh
On 7/07/2011 10:43 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: I'm still not so keen on the pause while description is catching up behaviour. Part of this is design/implementation concerns; I'm very concerned about this tight interaction between the screen reader and the system. ... The comparison to