[Accessibility-ia2] next changes to IAccessible2

Pete Brunet pete at a11ysoft.com
Wed Jun 22 09:51:07 PDT 2011


Hi Peter, What is DAISY solution for Braille users?

I'm also interested in pointers to web/cloud TTS solutions.

Thanks, Pete

On 6/22/2011 11:40 AM, Peter Korn wrote:
> Rich, Sylvia, all,
>
> I think we have identified the key use case for extended descriptions
> in HTML video playback: for blind people who can hear.  Deaf-blind
> would simply obtain all of the text (captions & extended descriptions)
> and read them at their own speed.
>
> All of this API discussion is predicated on the assumption that the
> blind user's screen reader should read these extended descriptions,
> with some programmatic means of pausing/continuing video playback
> while the screen reader reads the text (at a speed unknown to the
> video player).
>
> But is this really the right answer?  We are seeing more and more TTS
> engines available, many in the cloud.  Why not simply have the video
> player optionally read the extended description, pausing the video
> while it does so?  This is how we do DAISY book playback - we don't
> expect the screen reader to read the book, we expect the book player
> to read the text.  Also doing it this way makes the result much more
> universally available.  And it opens things up for a human being to
> read the extended descriptions - again similar to DAISY.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> On 6/22/2011 6:27 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>>
>> Pete,
>>
>> I am looking at accessibleDocument. Should we not do more than that
>> for a document interface? Should we also have features to collect and
>> access specific objects with a specific element type - filtering
>> mechanisms?
>>
>> Note: I am in favor of not unnecessarily growing the API. API changes
>> cause a lot of churn. However, with the FCC adopting creating new
>> laws based on the 21st Century Communication and Video act there is a
>> need for infrastructure to better support the HTML 5 changes Silvia
>> is working on to support video and audio.
>>
>> I am looking at the notification mechanism for media
>> MEDIA_TEXT_QUEUE_CHANGE. Would it be better to have a callback
>> registry for ATs similar to what we did in Java? I am concerned about
>> potential OS scheduling issues caused by posting events to the
>> message queue.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>> CTO Accessibility Software Group
>>
>> Inactive hide details for Pete Brunet ---06/06/2011 11:12:32 PM---Hi
>> all, Please take a look at this and provide your feedback:Pete Brunet
>> ---06/06/2011 11:12:32 PM---Hi all, Please take a look at this and
>> provide your feedback: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility
>>
>> From: Pete Brunet <pete at a11ysoft.com>
>> To: IA2 List <Accessibility-ia2 at lists.freestandards.org>
>> Date: 06/06/2011 11:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] next changes to IAccessible2
>> Sent by: accessibility-ia2-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all, Please take a look at this and provide your feedback:
>> _
>> __https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3_
>>
>> Thanks, Pete
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>> On 3/11/2011 11:10 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>>       Hi, Jamie. I missed Mick suggestion on the list. It's sounds
>>       reasonable and I agree we should try it before getting new API
>>       for this since the issue is mostly about events.
>>
>>       Thank you.
>>       Alex.
>>
>>
>>       On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:43 AM, James Teh
>>       <_jamie at nvaccess.org_ <mailto:jamie at nvaccess.org>> wrote:
>>             Hi.
>>
>>             Nice work; good to get the discussion going. :)
>>
>>             I still don't see a need for this registry API. Why not
>>             just use IsWinEventHookInstalled(), as Mick suggested on
>>             the IA2 list?
>>
>>             Thanks.
>>
>>             Jamie
>>
>>
>>             On 12/03/2011 3:48 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>                   Hi.
>>
>>                   I gathered ideas into one doc -_
>>                   __https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3_.
>>                   Please give feedback
>>                   here and feel free to edit the wiki.
>>
>>                   Thank you.
>>                   Alex. 
>>             -- 
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>>             Vice President, Developer
>>             NV Access Inc, ABN 61773362390
>>             Email: _jamie at nvaccess.org_ <mailto:jamie at nvaccess.org>
>>             Web site: _http://www.nvaccess.org/_ 
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