Category: Geeks r Us
All,
If anyone has an idea for a piece of accessible software, web or desktop based, please let me know.
For instance, I am currently working on a proxy to make websites more accessible.
It will, for instance, modify mouse-over links to standard links, which Jaws will recognize, even within Firefox.
Feel free to reply here, or by e-mail.
brandon.mcginty@gmail.com
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Brandon McGinty
Okay, let's start with Windows, since that's probably what you mean. and This really shouldn't be very difficult at all, since one accent is recognised. I absolutely love ESpeak and NVDA. ESpeak is one of the few synthesizers that can recognise Greek, including pronouncing words correctly which have the tonos, the one accent used in today's monotonic writing system. But in most writings before 1982, from the formal Katharevousa, which is always written that way, to the informal Demotiki which changed after that point, the polytonic system is used. But ESpeak does not recognise the other accent marks, mispronounces words with them and won't even read the letters that have them when I have NVDA try that. I wish to learn Katharevousa and have never found any synthesizer which could read it. I'm not even going into ancient, as that requires an entirely different pronunciation etc. Just to be able to read modern in polytonic would be wonderful.
Now onto DOS. This is hardly a little piece of software but I'll try anyway. I want a new screenreader that can work with the modern versions of DOS, like Enhanced DR-DOS and FreeDOS. Unfortunately, GW Micro, Freedom Scientific and Microtalk haven't released open source versions of VocalEyes, JAWS for DOS or ASAP respectively, so you can't modify those. I know that VocalEyes has set files and ASAP does as well, but I'm not sure how/if they can be used to take advantage of updates to the operating system. There is one, called Provox, which has been released, but I hear that it's very difficult to use, especially when compared with the others. The new versions of the os, in particular Enhanced DR-DOS, are supposed to be very compatible with the Microsoft variety and both are still being developed. The last version of EDRD was released in 2009 or 2010, not sure. In either case, they're really taking advantage of modern hardware and other things to update the system and have long-ago surpassed MS-DOS in their capabilities. As for something smaller, perhaps a battery checker for DOS or maybe, just maybe, some kind of way to use a software synthesizer, like ESpeak with an existing screenreader like VocalEyes or JAWS. I would love! a Greek synth, since there are now editors which could handle unicode, but that sounds like another big project if the synth has to be made from scratch..
A free or low-cost, no-fuss email verifier to strip out dead email addresses from distribution lists.
can you make
1, a accesible disk utility like partition magic.
2, alternative to iTunes.
thanks!
After having to deal with their horrible main site, I would really love to see some kind of Facebook client that will let me use those features without having to actually go there. I'm grateful for the mobile site, but it doesn't allow me to do all the things that I'm supposed to be able to do on the main one. I know about the client for Klango, but I'm not sure if it's been improved or just allows you to do basic things.
Scripts for the current version of AV Voicechanger.
I didn't even know that's accessible. Will it work with NVDA? I don't need it, but it sounds like something amusing.
OK, I'm sure this may take a while to create, but I want a open-source, community driven sample-based speech synthesis system. The voices could be, in a small way, linked to a server which checks for updatesto them and downloads additional voices, if wanted. People who want to create new voices just need to download a program, speak the needed segments and sentances, and their voice will be uploaded and converted into a speech package for the system. The voices could use the .ogg format of audio to make the voices smaller. The system could use as low memory as it can, to make it practical for screen reader usage. New languages could be added by speakers of that language. It could possibly be based off E-speak, the ways of controlling the segments of speech anyways. Is this possible?
How about some accessible remote access software? Remote desktop annoys me and I'm tired of trying to find a version of vnc that supports audio and is stable.
I'm not interested in any of the system access products btw.
what about a accessible midi to mp3 batch converter for the mac? Or maybe a doubletalk lt emulator for windows?