[access-uk] Re: Wish list for Windows 8 accessibility
- From: "Andrew Ireland" <a.emaillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:27:04 -0000
I have to agree with you Kevin, if Apple and Linux systems have it I see no
reason why Microsoft can't implement it in to all operating systems going
forward.
All the best
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Andrew
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin Cussick
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:36 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Wish list for Windows 8 accessibility
And we would also wish for speech at the installation of window's I am
sure I could think of more but window's is the only Os that can't give
you speech at installation! Linux does it and so does the mac as far as
I remember. I am sure it is not to easy but I would have thought it
could be done.
Have an announcement saying to install with speech hit enter Hit esk if
you want to install without speech, I don't think this will happen with
this Os but you can put to Ms and see what they say. but I think it
might be a bit to late in the beta for any big changes like this good luck.
On 06/01/2012 12:23, Griffiths, Steve wrote:
> I'm writing up a wish list for what I think Microsoft should build into
> Windows 8 in terms of accessibility. I don't want to start a big debate,
> but I'd be interested in opinions on whether the below is missing
> anything major or plain wrong!
>
> Low vision users, essential
>
> - full screen magnification with high contrast colours.
>
> - font smoothing at higher rates of magnification.
>
> Low vision users, desirable
>
> - additional themes with options for a wide variety of preferences.
>
> - one custom theme that lets you choose foreground and background
> colours for each element separately.
>
> Speech users, essential
>
> - a built-in screen reader that would allow a person to easily and
> independently use all menus, ribbons, dialogues and workspaces within
> the following Windows elements or applications: Start Menu, Taskbar,
> Notification Area, Desktop, Control Panel, Windows Explorer, Windows
> Media Player, WordPad, Windows Live Mail, Internet Explorer.
>
> - screen reader navigation options to include by character, word, line,
> sentence, paragraph, page, section and read-to-end.
>
> Speech users, desirable
>
> - universal keystroke for speech on/off.
>
> - choice of voices for screen reader.
>
> - screen reader options for typing echo variation, speech rate and
> amount of punctuation and format information.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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