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 stable, all this tools will be selectable in accordance with the specific needs of every user. Vocal browsing can be useful to people with visual impairments.
Go on readin “Yet another video demo”
Hypothesis on an accessible registration and configuration form
Recently 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 effective. I think the best interface for this would be a “multisensorial” one. A list of questions, both displayed on the screen and read by a synthetic voice, should be readily accessible for the major part of users.These questions should ask about the needs and the preferences of the new user, proposing useful combos of instruments: if someone chooses a scanning writing system, it would be useful for him to also have a word prediction system up and running. It would be useful, even if not mandatory: it only depends on one’s actual ability to move on the keyboard.This user configuration procedure should also be flexible: as Farfalla is meant to become a modular instrument, with the possibility offered to other developers to add new features, the configuration has also to be modular and it has to provide the developers with the possibility to simply add their options in a standardized way.
