Speech enabled websites?

dyslexicduncan · 01-15-2004, 07:44 AM

Hello,

I am a komputer User with sever dyslexia anfd I am posting here to try and encurage all of you developer folks to make your websites accessible to me. At the momment I find dificultie reading and riting and this makes it dificult to access the web. For years I had to use other software I have on my komputer to read websites but I have just found a peice of software that could really help me.

Speech enabling the sites wuld alow peopel like me to have easy acess to websites and a product like this has been reviewed recently in a magazine I read (slowly!). The software I recomend to you is called Browsealoud and can be downloaded for free from the companies website. Plees note this is not an advert or anythin like that. I just want you to no how usefull this culd be for people who find it dificult to reed.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/web-design-discussion/17503-speech-enabled-websites.html

Also as a dyslexic sufferr I no that new legislaton is coming that will make the provison of info to people like me a legal reqirement. So it may be worth lookin into now!

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I hope that someday soon I will be abel to taek advanteg of the internet like everyone else, please keep people like me in mind when devloping new sites

Duncan.

p.s you can find the Browsealoud plugin at www.browsealoud.com please check it out.

adam_uk · 01-15-2004, 07:59 AM

how exactly does it work?

ahhhh sok found it now

seems like a good tool

do you have anymore info on this legisslation i can read?

dyslexicduncan · 01-15-2004, 08:51 AM

Hi,

Its great isnt it!!

The legislaton that is coming includes:

UK: e-goverment 2005 (requiring that all online info be acessible to everyone reggardless of their disibility)

This will be comin in the middle of this year. You can find out more on the UKonline website or by searching for egov2005 in google.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m.../article.jhtml
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=17503

U.S.A: Section 508 (sort of the same thing but in America)

www.section508.gov

p.s Im no expert on this, I just have heard about things in the press!

InteractAsia · 01-15-2004, 04:19 PM

Hello there dyslexicduncan

Welcome to NP/WDT

thanks for the head up.I'm sure many things will go well with this in the future.

might want to fix the link up there http://www.browsealoud.com/
without the comma

01-15-2004, 07:44 AM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
dyslexicduncan New Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2	Speech enabled websites? Hello, I am a komputer User with sever dyslexia anfd I am posting here to try and encurage all of you developer folks to make your websites accessible to me. At the momment I find dificultie reading and riting and this makes it dificult to access the web. For years I had to use other software I have on my komputer to read websites but I have just found a peice of software that could really help me. Speech enabling the sites wuld alow peopel like me to have easy acess to websites and a product like this has been reviewed recently in a magazine I read (slowly!). The software I recomend to you is called Browsealoud and can be downloaded for free from the companies website. Plees note this is not an advert or anythin like that. I just want you to no how usefull this culd be for people who find it dificult to reed. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/web-design-discussion/17503-speech-enabled-websites.html Also as a dyslexic sufferr I no that new legislaton is coming that will make the provison of info to people like me a legal reqirement. So it may be worth lookin into now! Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I hope that someday soon I will be abel to taek advanteg of the internet like everyone else, please keep people like me in mind when devloping new sites Duncan. p.s you can find the Browsealoud plugin at www.browsealoud.com please check it out. Last edited by dyslexicduncan; 01-16-2004 at 02:22 AM.

01-15-2004, 07:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
adam_uk Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,187	how exactly does it work? ahhhh sok found it now seems like a good tool do you have anymore info on this legisslation i can read? Last edited by adam_uk; 01-15-2004 at 08:04 AM.

01-15-2004, 08:51 AM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
dyslexicduncan New Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2	Hello again Hi, Its great isnt it!! The legislaton that is coming includes: UK: e-goverment 2005 (requiring that all online info be acessible to everyone reggardless of their disibility) This will be comin in the middle of this year. You can find out more on the UKonline website or by searching for egov2005 in google. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m.../article.jhtml ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=17503 U.S.A: Section 508 (sort of the same thing but in America) www.section508.gov p.s Im no expert on this, I just have heard about things in the press!

01-15-2004, 04:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
InteractAsia Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Merlion City Posts: 1,208	Hello there dyslexicduncan Welcome to NP/WDT thanks for the head up.I'm sure many things will go well with this in the future. might want to fix the link up there http://www.browsealoud.com/ without the comma __________________ ermm..do i need to put my sig here? Free Short URL \| Free Reseller Hosting \| Free cPanel Blog Hosting Hottest New Posters & Prints

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