I: Map accessibility issue

[Caterina Avoledo]

--- Gio 25/10/12, Caterina Avoledo <cate...@yahoo.it> ha scritto:

> Da: Caterina Avoledo <cate...@yahoo.it>
> Oggetto: Map accessibility issue
> A: cartag...@googlegroups.com
> Data: Giovedì 25 ottobre 2012, 15:56
> Hello,
> I am working on the idea to add sounds to maps to let blind
> people explore them in combination with the mouse motion.
> Basically different sounds should play when mouse gets over
> the objects of the map (roads, water, parks, buildings...)
> and clicking on an object its name should be spoken.
> Something similar already exists on IOS devices (it's called
> AriadneGPS) and I think that it could be usefull to have it
> on pcs too. Of course it could be a good tool for
> educational porposals if even geographic data were
> retrieved.
> I discovered the Cartagen project and now I would like to
> adapt it to this porpose.
> I downloaded the source code of Cartagen 0.6.2 and I
> modified index.html and style.gss file and I added some
> scripts to implement "accessibility features" for roads,
> parks, buildings, waterway and rail. I associated a sound to
> each of these objects. Now the problem is to handle them
> more precisely. I mean, I need to find a way to repeat
> playing a sound till the mouse pointer is over an object and
> stop it as soon as mouse gets out of the object. I could use
> the "loop" attribute, but I don't know how to pause it when
> mouse exits. Do you have any idea on how to solve this?
> Please, can you give a look at my code? I attach an archive
> with the modified and additional files. I'm using Firefox
> 15.0.1 on Win7.
> I thank you in advance hoping you can point me on the right
> direction.
> Best rgards,
> Caterina