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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga software for visually-impaired users
- Message-ID: <C0BzCo.6y8@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 13:12:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.200900.15441@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Quentin Barnes) writes:
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- >What Amiga software programs and utilities are available for
- >visually-impaired users?
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- Good question. I've suggested to CBM directly that they include support
- for the visually impaired, but so far no hint of anything stirring. The
- Amiga is the perfect system for these kinds of applications, what with
- its internal voice synthesis system, the ability to recognize when the
- mouse is over a gadget, etc. It would be very simple for CBM to set up
- the OS to pronounce the names of icons the mouse passes over as well as
- other gadgets - GUIs which support speech like this aren't exactly
- widely available, but systems for Windows to do this are available from
- third-parties - the Amiga could gain some strong support by making itself
- available to the visually impaired, and it would be good PR for CBM, to
- boot.
-
- >Quentin Barnes
- >qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com | ..!uiucuxc!udc!qbarnes
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