I'm not disabled myself, but I do see the benefits in such a venture, and 
assuming there is text-to-speech program with a MediaWiki friendly API (or at 
least can hook into MediaWiki fairly well) that could be used as a backend, I 
would think this would not only be possible, but a great idea.

> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:49:51 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?
> 
> Hello, and thank you for your work,
> 
> I was looking at the Librivox project today and I thought that it'd be
> great to have voice support in Mediawiki, to aid people with sight
> impairments or disabilities.
> So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for
> Mediawiki, or if there could be some other means of offering wiki pages
> in audio form.
> 
> Thanks for your time as well,
> Ilias K.
> 
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