Squeak Accessibility for the blind

Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch
Mon Dec 13 09:42:21 UTC 2004


Thomas,

Thomas A Petersen wrote:
> Hannes, et al,
> I would leave this one to third party tools like JAWS.
> They have a tool that can read you most bitmap text and
> work around other issues like menus and baloon help.
>
I didn't know that the audio screenreader JAWS can read bitmap text,
i.e. that you can work with it and Squeak. This is interesting....


> Actually, I have been hopelessly spoiled by the AT&T Natural Voices
> that can be used with ReadPlease and other clipboard based speach
> systems on Windows.  Asking Squeak to programatically copy to the
> clipboard allows me to take some advantage of this external aiding
> technology without a lot of deep hacking.  It also takes a
> considerable load off of the Squeak VM's CPU consumption.
A good idea. Could you tell me which customisations to Squeak you did
for this?

Regards
Hannes






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