- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:14:46 +0100
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Maurice Carey wrote: > How much money do you think it would take to pay some open source coders > (preferably people who are already hacking on firefox, konqueror) to come up > with a better <strike>Screen</strike> Web Page Reader. > > What are the odds someone in the large and dedicated community of people who > fight for the rights of the disabled could get a good fund raiser going to > pay these programmers to build a reader? Is this a "put your money where your mouth is" call to accessibility advocates? If so, I'd consider that we have the likes of Opera, Apple and Microsoft on this list as well (whose funding power may be slightly more considerable). Also, there are already open source solutions out there such as Thunder http://www.screenreader.net/, Orca http://live.gnome.org/Orca, NVDA http://www.nvda-project.org/ - with varying degrees of complexity and usefulness. > I say web page reader because 90% of the people I know only read the Web > Page part of the screen. Just having an aural/voicing browser on its own is fairly useless to blind or visually impaired users if they can't actually operate the OS in the first place. Hence the complexity of of screen readers - they need to hook into the OS at a fairly fundamental level (and the OS, in turn, needs to expose adequate hooks and APIs for them). P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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