[access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:57:16 -0000
All the pen has to do is recognise what's on the screen. The speech would be
in the pen and not the device. As long as the pen could recognise the text,
it would be device independent.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
But in my dream Ray, every appliance on the market would have the firmware
in it for our lovely pen thing (smile).
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
> Interesting thought Jackie, but the radio or whatever would have to
> incorporate at least some firmware to do this.
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Jackie Cairns
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
>
>
> Ray, the more I think about this accessibility issue to fairly simple
> appliances like radios with digital displays and menus, I wonder if it
> would
> be possible to have a sort of pen device that you could point at the
> display, and it read out its contents. Imagine you could just show
> the nib
> of the pen to the Internet radio or DAB device and it reads out what
> you are
> listening to, and then anything else as you move the dial or enter a
> menu
> system. Ooh you never know. In that way, it would mean that the
> device
> itself wouldn't need to be altered, but the software in the pen could
> be
> updated to take account of the latest technology. Perhaps a pipe
> dream, but
> an interesting thought nevertheless.
>
> Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
>
>
>> Jackie, certainly points up the complexity of what needs to be done
> to
>> get the thing talking sensibly. I just wonder what's so difficult
>> about designing an interface that an add-on could plug into?
>>
>> I hear these futuristic press releases of RNIB and their resident
>> guru, sorry 'scientist' Dr. John Gill, saying how they're
> developing
>> a strategy or whatever for making evryday appliances accessible, but
>> nothing over these last five years and more has ever seemed to come
> of
>> it.
>>
>> Still, getting back to grim reality, looks as though your experience
>> might point the way to how we could get some usability from this
>> device with the right sort of help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> From Ray
>> I can be contacted off-list at:
>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>>
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