Please Help me by filling this questioner - for visually impaired friends
Varuni Wijeratne
the Degree Program. In my final year I have to develop a final year
project. I am hoping to develop a software with which the visually
impaired users can communicate with Microsoft PowerPoint using voice
commands without the need of keyboards. The software will also convert
the action triggered by the user in to voice, so the user can make
sure what is happening on the screen. If you are visually impaired,
please be kind enough to give your valuable ideas for my project and
thank you in advance.
I've invited you to fill out the form Communicative PowerPoint. To
fill it out, visit:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG8yeXB4NkNlVzNManBlWXg5RDh6aFE6MA
J. P. Gilliver (John)
<60c8dea2-7b2e-477c...@f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> I am a Software Engineering Student, who is doing the final year of
>the Degree Program. In my final year I have to develop a final year
>project. I am hoping to develop a software with which the visually
>impaired users can communicate with Microsoft PowerPoint using voice
>commands without the need of keyboards. The software will also convert
. You would perhaps be better aiming this product - and selecting
newsgroups accordingly - at people with motor problems and/or limb
shortages; although there is definitely an _overlap_ with the visually
handicapped, many VH people do _not_ have a problem with the keyboard;
for the purposes of powerpoint, their main problem is _receiving_ the
information, not transmitting it.
(Finally, the questionnaire should have had some no options: not all VH
people use a screen reader [some use magnifiers instead - VH covers a
range], for example.)
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** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **
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Brian Gaff
have, particularly if we have never seen Powerpoint at all, is an
understanding of the concept needed to produce things for the sighted to
see. Also of course, there is a big problem for the blind in appreciating
what a sighted person puts in their presentation.
I suppose those with movement problems could benefit from a voice control
system, but there are packages out there for this already.
Brian
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graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
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Roland Zitzke
> I am a Software Engineering Student, who is doing the final year of
> the Degree Program. In my final year I have to develop a final year
> project. I am hoping to develop a software with which the visually
As other people ponted out the real chalanges for making an application
like powerpoint accessible for people with visual impairments are
somehow different from what you are trying to implement.
There are screen readers (I know of Jaws) which do a pretty good job in
presenting powerpoint content using speech - as much as this is possible.
Personally I have no vision and I do use powerpoint occasionally to
create slides - not my favorite though.
It would probably more helpful for the majority of people if
iaccessible2 support in OpenOffice would advance i.e. if development
time could be spent on this. OpenOffice contains a powerpoint equivalent
(impress) and since many components are shared chances are this
application would become more accessible if iaccessible2 would be
implemented - it's on the OpenOffice roadmap somehow anyway.
/Roland