On 3/29/06, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I wonder how he got Firefox to talk? I love Firefox in windows and would > love to somehow implement it with Linux. I figured you had to run it in > X under gnome accessibility or something. Is that indeed the case? > I'll bet that PDA would be fun with Speakup too:). > Actually, there's another research project that aims to make Firefox speak (on Windows unfortunately) but it's not screen-reader based. They've attempted to provide an interface optimised for visually impaired users. For anyone who's interested, the paper is online: http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/newsletter/jan06/Jan06_all.pdf and is called Clique: A conversant, task-based audio display for GUI applications Bob Dodd Accessibility Research Centre, University of Teesside, United Kingdom
