Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-06 Thread Steven Faulkner
To get an idea of how screen readers vocalise content (it also many other features) I would recommend trying adesigner (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner) On 06/12/2007, Jixor - Stephen I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said how would it compare for a developer that is making an effo

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-06 Thread Steven Faulkner
To get an idea of how screen readers vocalise content (it also many other features) I would recommend trying adesigner (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner) On 06/12/2007, Jixor - Stephen I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said how would it compare for a developer that is making an effor

RE: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Green
read out. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jixor - Stephen I Sent: 06 December 2007 00:50 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox) That said how

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
That said how would it compare for a developer that is making an effort to correctly mark up their html just to get an impression of how it would work for a screen reader user? Steve Green wrote: A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles Chen, its creator. At

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
That said how would it compare for a developer that is making an effort to correctly mark up their html just to get an impression of how it would work for a screen reader user? Steve Green wrote: A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles Chen, its creator. At t

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Faulkner
Firevox also implemts much of WAI-ARIA, so it is useful for testing and demos of ARIA functionality. On 05/12/2007, Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles > Chen, its creator. At that time there is no way I would des

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Faulkner
Firevox also implemts much of WAI-ARIA, so it is useful for testing and demos of ARIA functionality. On 05/12/2007, Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles > Chen, its creator. At that time there is no way I would desc

RE: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Green
A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles Chen, its creator. At that time there is no way I would describe it as "full-fledged screen reader" as it had many shortcomings. I got the impression it was really just a hobby project, and Charles said he had pretty much a

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I haven't tried them before but they sound very interesting. I'll have to give them a look. Nick Lo wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has tried/tested the following potentially useful extensions and if so what their opinion was/is: "Two recently released text-to-speech extensions can transform

RE: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Green
A year ago I started to evaluate FireVox 2.6 and had a dialog with Charles Chen, its creator. At that time there is no way I would describe it as "full-fledged screen reader" as it had many shortcomings. I got the impression it was really just a hobby project, and Charles said he had pretty much ab

Re: [WSG] Article: "Vocalize Firefox" (text-to-speech extensions for Firefox)

2007-12-04 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I haven't tried them before but they sound very interesting. I'll have to give them a look. Nick Lo wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has tried/tested the following potentially useful extensions and if so what their opinion was/is: "Two recently released text-to-speech extensions can transform F