[oats-sig] Mozilla accessibility activity

Hmm why do you think Orca is only for Serious VI users? It is

OK I get the picture, your describing simple TTS support compared to a 
full screen reader for reading difficulties, e.g. highlight ala talking 
books and dyslexia toolbars. Certainly Orca is a serious tool for using 
Linux/Solaris with Text and Brail support.

Re clipboard sometime ago I knocked up a simple reader for Tim Anderson 
of Drake Music Project. It has issues and is Alpha but it's at 
http://fullmeasure.co.uk/cliptalk/ (GPL). As I quickly knocked it up 
using FOSS tools it was fun to use as an example of the power of FOSS in 
a letter to Ability mag.

http://www.datafurnace.net.au/sayzme/ (BSD style) looks a better bet.

Steve

mats.lundalv at vgregion.se wrote:
>     Hmm why do you think Orca is only for Serious VI users? It is
>     scriptable
>     (Python) so it may be possible to achieve some of what you are
>     suggesting via scripts. But perhaps it already does most of that? There
>     is a vid on scripting on the Orca site, http://live.gnome.org/Orca
>     (i've
>     not had time to view it but the other one is intro it its modes) I
>     could
>     bring this up with Willie in Boston but I'm not 100% sure of your
>     distinction in requirements. Perhaps you would like to discuss more?
> 
>     Steve
> 
> Sure Steve! Well, I'll really try to take a look on Ocra in some more 
> detail some day soon, but so far this is just the impression I've got: 
> That Ocra is a serious attempt to provide  an OS screen reader that 
> meets the needs of blind users in the Gnome environment. Something 
> similar to JAWS and other tools for Windows. That means a lot of 
> functionality, including powerful scripting facilities to tailor the 
> behaviour for different user requirements and different applications. 
> The problem for sighted users with reading difficulties, and in need for 
> some basic text-to-speech reading support, is generally not a lack of 
> functionality, but too much functionality, and complexity. And still 
> some of the features I mention may be missing - like muse pointer 
> controled reading,and clipboard reading.
> If we are lucky most of this may be hidden in there. The trick then is 
> to be able to hide away all complex options that are not needed, which 
> may be hard or impossible. This needs to be checked.
> The advantage with a free OS screen reader is of course that you can 
> afford using it even though just a small percentage of the functionality 
> is needed. But it may also be interesting to discuss a stripped down and 
> simplified "lite" version - possibly with a few special features - for 
> sighted users with problems to access text content.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mats