- From: Chuck Hitchcock <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:17:55 -0400
- To: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "John O'Rourke" <JOROURKE@fcc.gov>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi, I agree with comments made so far regarding RTF. CAST has developed a text to speech Reader for Windows that uses RTF as the default document format and then uses the IE 4 or 5 component to read HTML. We have much more control over reading and highlighting mode combinations and over naviagation within RTF documents than we do with HTML right now. We also use the RTF to provide a notes window next to the browser and, in that environment, can enable type and talk for confirmation. We are doing a lot of work right now to give us more control over the HTML but it is difficult when a goal is to support low level readers with synchronized highlighting, manual and automatic stepping, and various combinations of defining a unit to be read and highlighted (e.g. word, chunk, sentence, line, paragraph, etc.). We intend to use both RTF and HTML and hope to achieve in HTML what we have been already been able to do for two years in RTF. We think they go well together. Chuck *********************************** Chuck Hitchcock, Director Universal Design Lab (UDL)and Product Development, CAST, Inc., 39 Cross Street, Peabody, MA 01960 Voice 978 531-8555 TTY 978 531-3110 Fax 978 531-0192 <http://cast.org/> <http://cast.org/bobby/>
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