KTTS accessibility

Gustav Degreef gustav97 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 02:19:27 BST 2019


On 9/18/19 2:56 PM, Bob Stia wrote:
> I am severly sight impaired and legally blind. I can see lines of text, but 
> cannot read the words. 
This is a very similar situation that I have and is the same issue that
people with macular degeneration have.  And this is a growing number of
computer users.  We generally do not need screen readers. 
> I can select text in a document or an Email or a web page which sends it to 
> the clipboard.   The copy is then present in the KTTS manager. I then open 
> KTTS manager which brings up the clipboard, choose jobs, then speak clipboard 
> where it is spoken back to me.
That is the basic functionality that users like me need.
> It would improve accessibility,if at all possible, when we right click the 
> selected text a new item in the menu called the speak  clipboard would 
> appear, which would then automatically speak the selected text.
This functionality is actually there in Okular right now (is it using
Qtspeech?).  As I mentioned in a related post, it is not working
properly.  It also used to be present in Kate or Kwrite, I don't
remember which.
> It would be a good thing if this could be brought to the attention of the 
> Developer of KTTS. Is this feasible????
Is it still being maintained?  Gustav
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> Bob S
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