Yes Iain something on those lines that you could take everywhere and use to read displays and menu systems that appear on TV screens and radio displays etc, even domestic appliances too. Brill!
Jackie----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:54 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio
Jackie What you are thinking of is a kind of independent reading eye. Iain----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio Ray, the more I think about this accessibility issue to fairly simpleappliances like radios with digital displays and menus, I wonder if it wouldbe possible to have a sort of pen device that you could point at thedisplay, 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 arelistening 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 beupdated to take account of the latest technology. Perhaps a pipe dream, butan interesting thought nevertheless. Jackie----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:20 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet RadioJackie, 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 -----Original Message----- Jackie Cairns Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Internet Radio Ray, the first thing that could be tagged is the setup process. When you turn it on, you are prompted with the welcome message and then invited to connect to your network wirelessly, so have to key in your security code. Once you get past that, it asks you if you want to select Windows Media Player, or stations. Having opted for stations, it then asks whether you want genre or location. We opted for location, which brought up a whole list of countries. All that could be spoken with tags up to that point. After that, it gets complicated, because you then have to scroll through the stations of that country which, I believe, are listed alphabetically. I think this is where some sort of text-to-speech recognition would need to be thought out as tagging would be useless. I just can't see it happening to be honest, which is why I got fed up with the nonsense we are hearing from these organisations we all know and love (tongue in cheek here), and took the plunge. My theory was that if I could get a few stations out of it that were worth listening to, I would be happy, and so it has proved already. Anyway, I'll post back if I get anything more sensible out of the radio that is at least going to be constructive to us. I certainly won't say you can do this without sight. Forget that! I think it is possible with some memory of what sequence to follow, but I need to sit and do this before I could say with certainty that it is feasible. I wouldn't ever mislead anybody. Jackie ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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