Braille is good - but it relies on presence of a braille terminal - I understand they are very expensive and not overly comfortable - so many people rely on screen readers - which in turn will make it hard for us to find anyone actually testing the programmes.
But I am totally new to this, so I have no clue. I will ask around what is the most suitable way forward and will come back. Peter DM Smith wrote: > Another weird idea, allow for transliteration into braille. Probably > won't give the proper tactile response unless printed to a braille > printer. > > On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:51 PM, peter wrote: > >> I am at the moment trying to set up a laptop for a blind member of our >> church. >> >> One of the wonderful things here is obviously the festival support >> which >> comes with gnomesword - Karl, thank you! - which gave me an idea for a >> new feature - would it be possible for a module to contain sound >> files - >> just as some now contain images? >> >> I could imagine a commentary where each sound file is associated to >> passage coming in really useful for a) for general use associating >> already recorded sermons, lectures etc to biblical text and b) >> specifically as a help for the blind. >> >> I would think that it should be relatively straight forward (not >> being a >> programmer makes all things appear straight forward :-) ) to have a >> link >> launch e.g. totem or whatever other pre-existing media player is >> associated with a particular filetype. >> >> The advantages over the existing festival support is the natural voice >> of a recording, the ability to make use of music etc and the >> possibility to import existing taped sermon collections etc. The >> disadvantage is obviously the loss of granularity and generality - >> Festival can read each individual verse and could be used to read >> every >> type of module, irrespective of whether it is recorded or not. >> >> Festival is obviously not available for many languages. >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
