Posts by Sacha
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Keri, I shudder to imagine what a screenreader would make of the eclectic language we use here.
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Forgive him ...
For overusing the "W" word? - never!
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Can I add that the main problem encountered by any text-to-speech software is improperly structured material - including the vast majority of websites where designers routinely break the standards to make things look "pretty". PDFs are a minefield all their own, as is the bizarre fashion for light grey text (ahem).
However, XML and other aspects of what has broadly been called "semantic web" are gradually making inroads. As mentioned upthread, that's notable in domains like textbook production where the DAISY standard is becoming, well, standard. Russell, Daniel might have mentioned that at Foo as it underpins a lot of his work.
One simple thing we can all do to improve access is to simply use the built in Heading styles in both web and electronic documents.
Another believe it or not, is spelling. You can imagine the disruption to the reading flow when your screenreader software slows down in the middle of a sentence to spell out letter by letter a word it can not recognise.
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Not that it's a reason to allow breaking of built-in text-to-speech functions anywhere else.
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My understanding from colleagues is that there are already separate copyright exemptions for vision-impaired readers in NZ and other jurisdictions so that conversions into braille and audio don't reap extra profits for publishers and add cost barriers to the time ones.
It's mainly applied to academic textbooks, and the challenge is getting the publishers to supply marked-up electronic files - which I think are now compulsory in the US school textbook market.
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I imagine a faux rock waterfall has some kind of bad 80s/90s soundtrack. Great balls of fire do sound more.. authentic.
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all the people you were looking at weren't winning.
It seemed well beyond "not winning" Angus, they had an air of quiet desperation. In those numbers it hung in the air like a toxic cloud. I'm talking about the main barn, not the smaller tables.
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And I have to say the largely brown sea of faces bore absolutely no resemblance to the classy white folk in their tv advertising at the time.
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Regardless of the morality, I agree with Tom about what the place feels like:
I hate it and I hate its temples of misery where no one actually appears to be having any fun. Being around that many people and noticing the lack of a conversational hum is positively unnnerving.
I have only been in once but have never seen that size group of people not having fun. The contrast with any other gathering was striking and frankly creepy.
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Mark, I doubt there is a cite for that - yet.
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