Re: KDE Accessibility - sorry, off topic.

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Darragh,

Are you familiar with the KDE Accessibility mailing list & community?  
See <kde-accessibility kde org> and subscribe at 
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility  The folks there 
would be in the best position to address your question.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry but out of curiosity I have a quick question.
>
> >From looking at the KDETTS page shown below it looks like the plan is not to
> necessarily have a screen reader for KDE but to try to get indevidual
> application developers to include support for speech output via the KDETTS
> sub-system. I may be reading that wrong. If so, could someone enlighten me?
> It would seem like an absolutely crazy idea to go down that route so I'm
> sure I'm missing something.
>
> In case I'm not, How do the developers of KDETTS think that developers of
> applications will know what information needs to be spoken in their
> applications? Consistancy will go out the window!
>
> http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
> Quote from page:
> It is hoped that more programmers will begin adding speech capabilities to
> their KDE programs using KTTS. Eventually, when Qt 4 is distributed, it is
> hoped that Screen Readers will be adapted to use KTTS.
> End of quote.
>
> Second quote:
> Provide a lightweight and easily usable interface for applications to
> generate speech output.
> End of quote.
>
> Quote 3:
> KTTS -- KDE Text-to-Speech -- is a subsystem within the KDE desktop for
> conversion of text to audible speech. KTTS is currently under development
> and aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE applications to
> provide speech output.
> End of quote.
>
>
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