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

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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