- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:41:13 -0700
- To: thatch@us.ibm.com, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Checkpoint 6.15 was not considered critical for accessibility, but pitch and gender can be very important for some disabilities. I have worked with a few people with closed head injuries using reading technologies, and they seem very particular about the articulation characteristics of the speech. Most people I have worked with who are visually impaired though don't seem to concerned about pitch and geneder, as long as the voice quality is high. Do you think these should be a higher or lower priority? Jon At 09:24 PM 8/19/99 -0500, thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: > > >6.15: Allow the user to control speech volume, pitch, gender and other >articulation characteristics. > >Why are pitch and gender and other characteristics, priority 2? > >Jim Thatcher >IBM Special Needs Systems >www.ibm.com/sns >thatch@us.ibm.com >(512)838-0432 > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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