[access-uk] Re: More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was telephone landlines)
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- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 23:22:00 -0500
I can think of couple of other similar examples to Tvonics that were great
but didn't last long, the netjam digital freview boxes and of course the
pure digital talking radio, I forget the actual name of it, but I'm sure you
know what I'm talking about (it was the only talking DAB)! There was a lot
of potential to it and they still technically work, but of course having
been so many updates to DAB multiplexis or even new ones being added, that
radio has become almost useless, certainly when it comes to identifying the
stations.
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Jackie Brown
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was
telephone landlines)
Hi Colin
Not quite true with Olympus. My point with them is that the DM5 is fully
accessible, with its ability to read out file names within folders. So of
course I thought the same would apply to the DM7. Not so, they took some
steps back with that release. The annoying thing is that when you enter one
of the applications on the DM7, the TTS reads out the file or book it lands
on, but then try arrowing left or right to whatever else you have in there,
and nothing happens. You can't back out of folders either because you have
no idea of where you are. So TTS is there, it just hasn't been properly
implemented.
I think personally that the TVonics is a reasonable example of good
accessibility, but then it didn't last long either!
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Colin Howard
Sent: 06 November 2014 13:48
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was
telephone landlines)
Greetings,
Adding to Steve's Olympus discussion, agreed, problem with Olympus is same
as for the Pure Sonis. The speech was "enabled" by introduction of
individual files containing words, called up as necessary when the function
is activated. Yes, fine so far as it goes, but not what I term proper
speech. At least with screen-readers such as NVDA and their like, speech
gives a more or less accurate response to changes. Olympus and Pure could
not intelligently interpret displays for stations, file names for the
Olympus and the like.
Half-baked? Um! better than nout, but needs much improvement.
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