Re: Announcement: Sodbeans 2.0 Officially Released
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:30:13 -0500
Thanks,
Stefik
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:33 PM, qubit <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> congrats Andreas.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:19 PM
> Subject: Announcement: Sodbeans 2.0 Officially Released
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> My team here is pleased to announce the release of Sodbeans 2.0, our
> accessibility enhanced version of NetBeans 7.0. Some of the highlights
> from this release include:
>
> 1. Major interface and accessibility improvements, including a new
> windows installer, lots of screen reading enhancements, some prosody
> changes, a new tutorial system, and many other subtle changes to
> improve (hopefully) the sounds produced by Sodbeans.
>
> 2. Major changes and improvements to the Hop programming language and
> its connection into Sodbeans, including the addition of standard
> libraries, exceptions, constructors, a new native call-down system for
> connecting to Java or C++, multimedia code completion, better auditory
> editor hints, more obvious auditory cues for breakpoints, small
> improvements to the auditory debugger, and many other features.
>
> 3. A completely rewritten text-to-speech engine, now using our own
> engine Phonemic. Phonemic was released previously, but Sodbeans 2.0
> represents the first version that includes full integration. This
> change will greatly simplify adding screen reader and TTS features in
> the future and has made it possible to fix a number of accessibility
> problems, like making the difference between capital and lower case
> letters more obvious.
>
> More detailed release notes can be found here:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sodbeans/wiki/Sodbeans/ReleaseNotes
> And Sodbeans 2.0 can be downloaded from here:
> http://sodbeans.sourceforge.net/download.php
>
> Thanks to all for your help and support in this release. I hope that
> folks enjoy using it as much as we have enjoyed building it!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Computer Science
> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
>
> P.S. I would especially like to thank Melissa Stefik, Susanna Siebert,
> Kim Slattery, Jeff Wilson (my team), Chris Hundhausen and Derrick
> Smith (my collaborators on this project), Lisa Hodge and Sean
> McCormick (Two of the teachers that helped substantially in
> identifying what features should be put into this release), and the
> great folks out at Oracle that put up with my team's constant
> questions. I would also like to thank the National Science Foundation,
> as without their financial support, this work would not be possible.
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