re: [gutvol-d] what a difference a day makes
aaron said:
The problem is that the book itself is not readable.
actually, the problem is you got a dated version of the app. i'll send you one that contains the text-to-speech capability. even then, however, it seems to me that i could program an app that was tailored specifically for the sight-impaired, stripping out everything that was extraneous to them and adding features that were consciously geared to their needs. i'm willing to do the work of programming such an app. but aside from some basic ideas, i'm somewhat at a loss in terms of designing it. but if you would like to guide me -- backchannel, of course -- i would certainly take that on.
If you could put the text of the book in an edit type field, and cause the down arrow key to move down one line at a time, you might (and I stress might) solve it.
even in the version you have, you can summon up the text in an editfield that your screenreader might be able to handle. it's under the "notes" menu, if i remember correctly, since that editfield is what is displayed when a person clicks on a footnote-indicator in the paginated text. it's also useful to a person who wants to quickly scroll through the text. a paginated display is a better vehicle for reading the text, but a scrollable field also has its benefits for some purposes. plus, in the current version is a command to copy the text of the page(s) currently displayed to the _clipboard_, where -- it is my understanding -- some screenreaders will read it. that command is under the edit menu, where you'd expect it. thanks for your feedback, i appreciate it greatly... -bowerbird
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 10:19 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote:
actually, the problem is you got a dated version of the app. i'll send you one that contains the text-to-speech capability.
even then, however, it seems to me that i could program an app that was tailored specifically for the sight-impaired, stripping out everything that was extraneous to them and adding features that were consciously geared to their needs.
You miss the point. Most blind folks don't want to exit their screen reader to use a program with speech support built in. They want the other program to work with their screen reader and their screen reader to provide the speech.
i'm willing to do the work of programming such an app.
but aside from some basic ideas, i'm somewhat at a loss in terms of designing it. but if you would like to guide me -- backchannel, of course -- i would certainly take that on.
even in the version you have, you can summon up the text in an editfield that your screenreader might be able to handle.
I'm willing to take a look at the new version if you like.
it's under the "notes" menu, if i remember correctly, since that editfield is what is displayed when a person clicks on a footnote-indicator in the paginated text. it's also useful to a person who wants to quickly scroll through the text. a paginated display is a better vehicle for reading the text, but a scrollable field also has its benefits for some purposes.
plus, in the current version is a command to copy the text of the page(s) currently displayed to the _clipboard_, where -- it is my understanding -- some screenreaders will read it.
That may be so, but what a pain. I want to be able to scroll through and read it immediately, rather than having to hit a series of key strokes. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDMjtdI7J99hVZuJcRAnW1AJ4yk91WIcfcxia8FMyRp2Mtc272OACfSqHN CkGq3arMUuti4ut/wikUZU0= =s0H7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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