Improved Web Screen Readers

(the information in this page is accessory to the actual project by Prof. Gravano from Universidad de Buenos Aires in improving Web screen readers by using advanced speech synthesis techniques)

Links

• http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/index.html
  • Old project, for FF 1.5
• Konqueror Speaker plugin
  • http://dot.kde.org/2001/07/16/konqueror-gets-text-speech-synthesis
  • Seems to have disappeared from the net
  • http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/speaker3-0.1?content=10617
  • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327156
    • konq-speaker subsumed by the tts in kdeaccessibility
• KDE Accessibility Project
  • http://accessibility.kde.org/
  • http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Text-To-Speech
  • http://accessibility.kde.org/about/ttsteam.php
  • http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility
• ORCA project, accessibility for GNOME
  • http://blogs.sun.com/designatsun/entry/the_orca_project_br_accessibility
  • http://live.gnome.org/Orca
• Accessibility Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI)
  • http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/atspi/AT-SPI_on_D-Bus_20080730.html
• LibHtmlUnit
  • HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for Java programs". It models HTML documents and provides an API that allows you to invoke pages, fill out forms, click links, etc... just like you do in your "normal" browser.
  • http://packages.debian.org/sid/libhtmlunit-core-js-java
• odt2braille
  • http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/
  • Project of the month at SF.net: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201104/

Papers

• Producing intelligent telegraphic text reduction to provide an audio scanning service for the blind: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=12419510061097256902&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5