http://www.farfalla-project.org a web tool for accessibility Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:20:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I spent a lot of time writing code. The results were a better POST/GET variables management in the transmission of web forms and the totally experimental integration of the Festival Text-to-Speech engine. This last feature makes Farfalla read aloud the contents of web pages. When the project will be ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/06/05/yet-another-video-demo/ A new Farfalla alpha is going to be released soon. As a preview, you can watch a short video illustrating the recently developed new features. It shows the navigation of a simple webpage and of an accessible website, including a Google search. The video is available at the demo page. http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/05/25/a-video-demo-of-the-new-alpha/ Among the other features, farfalla includes a text prediction engine. Text prediction is one of the key issues to support users in many different fields, for example in the use of mobile phones. Several text prediction algorithms have been proposed in the literature, and interesting projects have been recently developed. Since ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/05/07/the-text-prediction-engine/ The idea of creating a browser-into-the-browser for Farfalla seems to be the best solution for accessibility: it will allow the rendering of webpages inside a sort of protected environment, where the pages themselves could be dinamically modified to meet the most basical accessibility requirements. For example, parsing the DOM tree of ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/04/04/some-issues-about-web-pages-rendering/ I have been writing on this Wordpress blog for weeks, writing some code in the meantime. Now I think it is time to reveal what I have done to the rest of the world! There are only three active pages besides the home page, but others are coming with docs, pictures ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/03/19/farfalla-projectorg-website-opens/ This is a scheme illustrating the future modular and multi-layer structure of Farfalla as I imagine it. At the bottom level there is a database, which will be used to store the user settings and the vocabulary. Then, linked to the database by an abstraction layer, there is the core application, ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/03/18/the-software-structure/ Last week I started writing some code for the new Farfalla release. As I decided to develop it like a browser-in-the-browser program, I started building a web page wrapper.In its present state, the program can only browse web pages, using a simple HTML form to enter website addresses instead ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/02/25/3-2-1-development-started/ Hypothesis on an accessible registration and configuration formRecently I have been thinking about how a new user can configure his new account on an ipothetical Farfalla server.The best introduction to an accessibility program would be an accessible registration form, where the first login and configuration procedure should be simple and ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/02/20/how-to-welcome-a-new-user/ In my last post I wrote about the idea of an abstraction layer to be built in order to create a sort of common basis for further software modules. Let us discuss this idea here. An abstraction layer is "a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/02/04/about-abstraction/ At the beginning of every research project there should be a deep analysis. It includes listing down all the resources available, gathering information about the problem which has to be studied and possibly solved, defining the strategies to be followed in every future step. The main resources for this project are: the ... http://www.farfalla-project.org/2008/01/30/gathering-ideas/