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Summary
- Appropriate consultation (7)
- Human-Computer Interaction (1)
- Web browsers adapted (2)
- Speech to Text (1)
- Text to Speech (2)
This page is part of Portal Ideose resources on digital accessibility . It lists 13 links to online services, to software or to documents on innovative digital accessibility.
Notes:
- Last update: Saturday, November 28, 2009.
- If you know an online resource on digital accessibility that is not listed here, thank you submit your proposal .
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Appropriate consultation
Browsealoud
Browsealoud is a solution that allows you to read a website for people who have difficulty reading (reduced vision, poor language proficiency). |
CLiCk, Speak
Click, Speak is a Firefox plugin which can read a web page.
It is for people that can use a mouse. |
HeadingsMap
This Firefox plugin generates a table of contents of the Web page and lets you navigate in title title. |
ReadSpeaker
ReadSpeaker is a solution that allows you to read a website or a blog for people who have difficulty reading (reduced vision, poor language proficiency). |
ZoomText
ZoomText is a screen magnifier software equipped with a voice synthesizer.
He can play so enlarged and hear what is displayed on the screen.
It can also change the screen colors for higher contrast adapted to his visual impairment and the size and shape of the mouse. |
Accessibar
This Firefox plugin allows among others to change the different colors of a Web page, and different sizes (font, line spacing).
He also runs a voice feature to read aloud the texts on a Web page. |
Application "comfort reading"
Open Source solution for editing on a web site viewing preferences (colors, font size ...). |
Human-Computer Interaction
OpenViBE (the first French software program enabling 'action through thought')
Initiated in 2005 and led by Inserm, Inria and France Telecom R & D project OpenViBE allows a man to interact with a computer by thought with software and a headset equipped with EEG electrodes.
A peculiarity of this French project is to be based on an open source development.
Its code is downloadable. [ Press Release OpenViBE (May 2009, pdf, 2.8 MB) ] |
Web browsers adapted
GreaseMonkey
With Firefox plugin like GreaseMonkey client side, it is possible to correct the accessibility of such services.
Indeed, it is possible to run the Javascript on your browser which can correct errors or create accessibility features such as keyboard shortcuts, change the display, zoom ... |
Hearsay: navigate the Web by voice
Hearsay project's objective is to produce a Web browser control and voice output for the visually impaired to navigate as well as non disabled. [ Video demonstration of a web browsing via a mobile phone (YouTube) ] |
Speech to Text
Voxalead
Online service for searching media files on the Web (video, audio ...) whose soundtrack contains a particular word or phrase. The service also provides real-time access to the verbatim transcript of sequenced audio files found. Although this transcription is not perfect, the service announced the automation of the development of multimedia content accessibility regarding two points: the textual transcription and captioning synchronized. |
Text to Speech
Acapela Text-to-Speech Interactive Demo
This online service allows you to test different synthetic voice text-to-speech in multiple languages. |
Readers DTBook DAISY audio books
Readers of DTBook DAISY audio books can listen and read books format DAISY .
The user experience is closer then consulting a book in print: ability to browse by table of contents, to mark a page, view the book in mobility (eg mobile phone) ...
These audio books are of course very interesting for the visually impaired.
Moreover, as the text read is highlighted, applications are possible in terms of training or simply to enable illiterate or foreign language to access the contents of books. |
