hmmm, text is simple.
I wander if you can use at least for windows on the graphical side
the espeak dll like nvda is doing.
espeak is opensource and if that can be used as an internal synth all
over the place that could work.
Ofcause there will be the disadvantage that you won't be able to
switch synths at all to anything however I have used nvda with the
internal synth and have never bothered with sapi or anything.
could the text menus still use the same keys like in windows.
More importantly though, I know richard disteno wrote his games like
you say with sfx and text and its ok.
if text is simplest then I'll go for text.
At 04:56 p.m. 17/10/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Unfortunately, no. Pygame, AKA SDL, creates a window and then draws
the text to the screen. Since it does not communicate with the Windows
API, At-Spi, or any other accessibility framework there is absolutely
no way for the screen reader to obtain the text on the screen.
Therefore it will have to be self-voiced via some speech engine since
the screen readers themselves can't read the text drawn to the screen.
On the flip side if we write a plain text application in Python I can
print text directly to the console which is absolutely accessible but
we can't handle keyboard events using Pygame-SDL because Pygame-SDL
requires us to create a graphical window to assign keyboard events to.
If we do that we are right back to requiring some sort of external
speech output system. So it is either going to be a plain text
application or a graphical application, but it can't be both.
On 10/17/12, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tom could you have a bit of both.
> I am not interested in the dos style menus and dos like mode that you
> would have in method 1 but am interested in the screenreader speaking
> things.
> I like everything in method 2 but I'd like nvda or something to say things.
> If I had to choose something then hmmm, well I guess the dos style
> would appeal to me.
> We have enough sapi based games and you are right, bar windows a lot
> of platforms are lacking in games.
> its why I just have not really thought about switching away from an
> expensive pc box.
> There is absolutely no entertainment on anything else desktop related.
> And if I have to duelboot windows or use a vm on a mac then I may as
> well buy a pc though macs do run vms better than pcs so.
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