On Tue, April 10, 2007 2:56 am, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007, Matt A wrote: > | Hello > | > | I am semi visually impaired and i don't read long things like books so > | well. So when I needed to read the Ubuntu Packaging guide I search > google > | to see if i could find an mp3 version of that guide when that failed I > made > | one using festival text2wave and lame. I was wondering has anyone ever > done > | that before. If so I would like to help him/her/them. If not can anyone > can > | anyone give me advice on how best to go about sharing my work. > | > | > | Matt A > > Matt, > > Awesome! I think that is a wonderful idea and truthfully I believe you are > the > first I have heard about that has done something like this. I think it > would > be great if we could somehow implement this with our main documentation > site, > but of course that would be up to the maintainers, which I am hoping > respond > to this. > > If this goes through, I see you being very busy, as we will want all docs > done > like this ;) Anyways, if it does go through, that would make Ubuntu a > definite champ when it comes to accessibility as I do not know of any > other > distros that do something like this. > > Matt? Jordan? Corey?
It sounds like a good idea to me, although don't screen readers do this already? My knowledge of accessibility is very poor, but I had assumed that screenreaders would be able to read our documentation out loud. CC:ing ubuntu-accessibility for their input. Matt -- http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
