Re: Lack of AT implementors participation (was Comments on IRC log)

On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:40 PM, T.V Raman wrote:

> In its early days I used to actively hunt down and  flame people
> who dared call Emacspeak a screenreader:-) I dont do that as
> actively any more, but Emacspeak still remains a  talking
> application, not a screenreader.

Well lucky for me you've tired of chasing down such blasphemers  :-).  
I did list Emacspeak under both screen reader and aural browser to  
recognize both roles it plays (more so than any other screen reader).

> But you raise an important point with respect to the state of
> screenreaders and HTML/CSS -- as you point out, their focus has
> been traditionally  in some ways less than, and in others more
> than "Web pages" -- they look at the screen, not at content.

Yes, I think that's an important point that needs stressing. Often  
times people point to a screen readers lack of support for HTML and  
CSS facilities as evidence that "even the screen readers" don't want  
those features. However, it's really a matter of them having a  
different focus than a talking application or aural browser. Their  
focus may be changing slowly, but they still don't seem to be  
focussed on necessarily consuming HTML or CSS specific features.

Take care,
Rob

Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:54:44 UTC