Hello, and thank you for your work,
I was looking at the Librivox project today and I thought that it'd be great to have voice support in Mediawiki, to aid people with sight impairments or disabilities. So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for Mediawiki, or if there could be some other means of offering wiki pages in audio form.
Thanks for your time as well, Ilias K.
I'm not disabled myself, but I do see the benefits in such a venture, and assuming there is text-to-speech program with a MediaWiki friendly API (or at least can hook into MediaWiki fairly well) that could be used as a backend, I would think this would not only be possible, but a great idea.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:49:51 +0200 From: ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?
Hello, and thank you for your work,
I was looking at the Librivox project today and I thought that it'd be great to have voice support in Mediawiki, to aid people with sight impairments or disabilities. So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for Mediawiki, or if there could be some other means of offering wiki pages in audio form.
Thanks for your time as well, Ilias K.
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Hoi, Are screen readers supported ? But do they understand what is the cruft that is on a page, the kind of cruft that you do not want to get read out to you? Thanks, GerardM
On 29 April 2014 08:03, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ilias Koumoundouros < ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr
wrote:
So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for Mediawiki
What advantages would this offer over a screen reader? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 08:17 +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Are screen readers supported ? But do they understand what is the cruft that is on a page, the kind of cruft that you do not want to get read out to you?
Depends on how you define "supported". :) For things that don't work, there is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org and the keyword "accessibility". Open tickets: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility&resolu...
andre
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