- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:04:42 -0500
- To: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
With some voices, you can change the volume of windows screen readers, windows media player has independant volume control and voice over has on the fly volume control. On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Phill Jenkins wrote: Another big problem when using a screen reader and playing a media file with sound is trying to control the volume of the media separately from the volume of the screen reader. I believe that is a screen reader control feature needed to make playing media files easier. The only screen reader that I know of that does this is the prototype from IBM's Chieko Asakawa called aiBrowser - see http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/tools/aiBrowser/index.php . . . Users can also adjust the volume of an individual source in order to identify and listen to different sound sources without losing track of the screen-reading software because of the sound of a video. If a content creator wants to provide a voice narrative for a video, he can write a text script as a piece of metadata; the tool adds the audio descriptions by using text-to-speech engines. Future plans for extending this technology include enabling flexible audio speed control and contributing this work to an open-source development project. Such contribution will accelerate development and adoption of tools that make Web-based multimedia content accessible to the visually impaired. . . Regards, Phill Jenkins, -- Jonnie Appleseed with his Hands-On Technolog(eye)s reducing technology's disabilities one byte at a time
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