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Hi Gary, There are three developments coming out of the AEGIS Project that might be of interest. Take a look at Dasher for Android, Tecla Access for Android (that provides tremendous control functionality as well), and CCF-SymbolDroid (which is compatible with TTS, but more focused on people with language/cognitive impairments, yet still may be a useful choice). Regards, Peter (former AEGIS Technical Manager) On 8/21/2013 10:34 AM, Gary Kline
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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/accessibilityhello 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! --
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