- From: Cynthia Waddell <cynthia.waddell@icdri.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:44:32 -0700
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>, "Scarlett Julian \(ED\)" <Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Charles, While you are looking around, I am also trying to find out what screenreader support there may be for three other languages- Chinese, Vietnamese and Tagalog. If anyone on this list knows, please pass it on. Thanks in advance, Cynthia Waddell -------------------------------------- Cynthia D. Waddell, JD Executive Director and Law, Policy and Technology Consultant International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) ICDRI Offices in San Jose, California and Raleigh, North Carolina USA www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/cynthia_waddell.htm See my new book! Constructing Accessible Web Sites www.icdri.org/constructing_accessible_web_site.htm Is your Site Accessible? Find out now with Cynthia Says! http://www.cynthiasays.com The Cynthia SaysTM portal is a joint Education and Outreach project of ICDRI, The Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter, and HiSoftware. -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:31 PM To: Scarlett Julian (ED) Cc: 'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org' Subject: Re: what languages can screen readers read in? I believe there is an arabic screen reader available, released about a year ago. (Maybe it is only a text to speech engine, but they can be hooked up to various linux-based screen readers and possibly to windows ones as well). There's a whole audio-based operating system in brazilian portuguese, there are definitely screen readers able to read "major european languages" (although I have heard finns laughing about the sound of things they use, I have also seen there a system that auto-detected for finnish or english and changed languages on the fly). I'd be surprised to find any definitive information on a monolingual list such as this one. Any results you do come up with would be useful though, and I suspect interesting to a number of people. Certainly there are japanese screenreaders. To find out about things like Urdu and Somali you might have to go beyond the subscribers of this list (do you know a Somali who might be interested in researching this a bit?). I'll ask around, too. But can't hold out many promises. cheers Charles On Monday, Jun 23, 2003, at 12:22 Europe/Zurich, Scarlett Julian (ED) wrote: > I've had a nosey in the archives but can't find a definitive answer. I > know that JAWS and HAL can read in a number of languages but they seem > to be Euro-centric. Does anyone know if there is support for Asian > languages. I want to put some pages up in the community languages of > our city (Somali, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese and Bengali) and want to put > them up as text but I'm wondering whether a screen reader will be able > to read the text out in a language that the user can understand. > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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