- From: Helle Bjarnø <hbj@visinfo.dk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:10:07 +0200
- To: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
I think we should keep dyslexic under screen readers as some people with dyslexia are using a screen reader even though many are using text-to-speech and here very few uses voice recognition due to lack of national language. Is synthetic speech and digitized speech the same? Regards Helle Bjarnø Visual Impairment Knowledge Centre Rymarksvej 1, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark Phone: +45 39 46 01 01 fax: +45 39 61 94 14 e-mail hbj@visinfo.dk Direct phone: +45 39 46 01 04 www.visinfo.dk www.euroaccessibility.org -----Original Message----- From: Libby Cohen [mailto:lcohen@alltech-tsi.org] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:22 PM To: EOWG (E-mail) Subject: Comments on How PWD Use the Web My comments are about the assistive technology devices and software. Speech recognition A very common use of speech recognition technologies is by persons with learning disabilities. Should this use be added to the description of speech recognition? Speech synthesis Suggest changing the term "speech synthesis" to "digitized speech" or "text-to-speech." The term "speech synthesis" does not seem to be commonly used. There are very few stand-alone speech synthesis devices. Most speech is digitized now and is generated by software. Tabbing through structural elements Suggest removing "dyslexic" from this description because persons who are dyslexic usually don't use screen readers. They may use speech recognition (speech-to-text) and text-to-speech or speech synthesis technologies. Libby Cohen Assistive Technology-Universal Design-Web Accessibility Check our Web site www.alltech-tsi.org Libby Cohen, Ed.D., ATP The Spurwink Institute 60 Pineland Drive New Gloucester, ME 04260 TEL & TTY: 1-866 688 4573 ext. 143 FAX: 1-207 688 4036 lcohen@alltech-tsi.org
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