Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:34:14PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Before this list goes away, I think it would be worthwhile to visit the > accessibility of the recently-released XO Tablet. It's running Android 4.2 > Jelly Bean and has a lot of XO-specific software installed. > > What accessibility features in Android would allow disabled users to make the > best use of this tablet? > > I have, in particular, an interest in text-to-speech capabilities in Android. > I know someone whose speech has been severely impaired by Parkinson's > Disease, and if Android offers an affordable communication solution, I would > recommend her purchase of this tablet in a heartbeat. I know that the iPad > offers such apps, and that there are ruggedized/bump cases for it; however, > we are talking about someone who is on a fixed income; if Android can offer > the same capabilities for less money, I'd be willing to suggest the XO Tablet > to her instead. > > _______________________________________________ > accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility hello to everyone of the accessibility list, I have dropped out of working on my "Voice By Computer" program some months back even though "VBC|vbc" works well on my Ubuntu linux desktop. I was the first severely disabled EE to graduate as a computer programmer in 1982 and have written several open source programs over the years. "vbc" is my text-to-speech effort that was and remains intended for people like myself with a speech impairment. some very old data is available at http://www.thought.org/vbc with a "src" link that will display a shar "List"; I put this up late last spring informed OLPC. Several minor hacks need to be made to store static data. ~/.config/inkscape/* is an example. What I have in /home/kline/.VBC should be moved to /home/kline/.config/.VBC/*. this is one example. vbc is written in C and GTK+. interested? have at it! -- Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community. http://www.thought.org/HOPE _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
