Dear All,
Screen readers and other assistive technologies have made a substantial contribution in the lives of persons with blindness. But we still encounter barriers while it comes to diagrams. Either someone draws it for us, or we need to purchase expensive devices to create tactile diagrams. Another option is audio graphing tool. I once tried it, but though it told me that a line is going up or down, I could not understand the extent of slope of a line or curve . So we thought let's create a tool that would provide audio feedback when users moves their finger over a line. This could be tactile exploration via audio. We started investigating how to create such a solution, and interestingly enough, we found that Michael Curran from NV Access has already developed an NVDA add-on known as audio Screen and it works with windows 8 and windows 8 compatible touch screen. I could not try it out as I do not have windows 8 compatible touch screen, but I listened to the audio demo and I think it could be a good solution to many of the challenges related to diagrams. Give it a try and let's make it known to those who might need it. http://www.nvaccess.org/audioScreen/index.html Regards Dinesh Kaushal Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
