Re: Amaya; Very Accessible Input But Not Output

On Monday 21 August 2006 23:23, Tony Broome wrote:
> I'd like to state that the Amaya web authoring tool is verey accessible
> from the keyboard, announcing all the menus and functions, unlike many
> other web editors and tools.  The problem is, that the output doesn't
> seem to be consistent with the wonderful ease of input.  I'm currently
> using FreedomBox and System Access as my speech technology; this is
> output speech, of course.  I have used Jaws and Window eyes before, but
> have not tried either of them with Amaya.   I'd like for us to be able 
> to get into that pane and be able to input text and instruct the editor
> as to making our web pages.  While we still all trust notepad, I'd like
> to be able to get Amaya to work, as it of course, being from W3C is
> already xhtml W3C complient.  I'm not just suggesting features but am
> willing to help, although I'm not a programmer, but have helped and
> trained in the accessibility field.  I'm a preacher by trade, so if I'm
> really messing up here, you'll know why.  Smile.
>
> Tony Broome

We know that problem and we tried (one year ago) to find out a Jaws expert 
(via a local blind community) able to help us to connect Amaya with that 
software. Unfortunately we didn't find out this kind of expert yet.

     Irène.
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