[Kde-accessibility] Offer to help

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 10:19, Γιάννης Παπαδόπουλος wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know if this list is still in use. I am not a programmer, just a
> history student. I would like to help to make KDE accessible to persons
> with visual disabilities. Is there a way I can help?
> Thanks
> Yannis

Welcome Yannis.

One way you can help is through application accessibility testing.  Take a 
look at the KOffice Accessibility Assessment here for an example:

http://accessibility.kde.org/reports/

There are lots of applications that need assessments.  If you write an 
assessment, send it to me, I'd be happy to post it on the website.

Keep in mind however, that the transition to Qt4/KDE4 is underway and 
applications will change significantly.  However, folks can't learn from 
their mistakes unless they know about them. :)

I noticed you are Greek.  If you care to get involved in a more technically 
challenging project, AFAIK, there are no free Greek voices available for the 
Festival Text-to-Speech engine.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

If you want to get involved in that, recommend you start by posting a message 
to the festival-talk mailing list to see if anyone else is working on a Greek 
voice.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php