[WG: Accessibility] [Building Sakai] Adding text-to-speech support to Sakai

[Eli Cochran]

Adding the Accessibility WG to the thread.

- Eli 

On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:27 AM, Luis Fernandez wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am the new hire in Edia, an Amsterdam based company that offers custom
> Sakai development amongst other things. We are currently investigating
> into the possibility of implementing full support for text-to-speech
> (TTS) for any Sakai instance.
> 
> Ideally it should be possible to mark-up which text must be processed by
> the TTS engine and of course be TTS engine independent. In principle
> there's no need to read-out the whole page, as things such as menu
> items, breadcrumbs and status messages might be too confusing if read
> out in the same go as the rest of the page. We would like this support
> to be compatible with existing Sakai tools if at all possible and
> provide a simple way for developers to add more fine-grained support for
> this feature in future tools.
> 
> Are there any efforts in the Sakai community in this direction already?
> Does anyone know of any existing approach to extend Sakai's
> functionality for the hearing impaired?
> 
> Any ideas are welcome.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Luis.
> 
> --
> Luis Fernandez
> Edia Educatie Technologie
> w: www.edia.nl
> t: +31 (0) 207163612
> 
> 
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley