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By: Gill

Gill — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:02:48 +0000

In ‘homage’ to your other post I will say:

nail, head, hit

I’ve looked at this facility on a number of occasions with a view to providing additional functionality over and above accessibility for Reader users but it’s the cost that’s the problem.

I was watching an interesting story on the news at unearthly o’clock this morning which said that in the US, in a few years, the minorities will actually become the majority, meaning that non-English speakers will be the larger percentage of the population.

This starts to put a whole new emphasis on what you need to provide for a successful site. Will we see accessibility rules changing or will it come under usability?

Where do you stop though?

Govt sites in the UK often have more than one set of text, Hindi, Gujerati and so on. Do we then have to provide text to speech that handles those languages as well for people who speak no English at all?

By: Darren Taylor

Darren Taylor — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:59:53 +0000

Jack thanks for highlighting the point that TTS software is not the same as screen readers. More often than not site owners which make use of such software are lead to be believe it’s for blind people. In fact very recently I pointed this out to our Editorial Board and not one person realised this. Is this dodgy marketing techniques on behalf of these companies (they know how they are?) I wonder or genuine misunderstanding?