This feature doesn't seem solely intended solely as an assistive technology. But having a "buttonless" mode is a good idea.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Aleksey Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org">alsroot@member.fsf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41:35AM +0530, chirag jain wrote:<br>
> Hi!!<br>
><br>
> I have created a rough proposal of speech synthesis. Please have a look at:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/speech-synthesis</a><br>
><br>
> Well the basic idea is to provide a button in core sugar like a home<br>
> button which is always present, and whenever the user selects the text<br>
> in current window and presses the speech button, the selected text is<br>
> speaked out.<br>
I'm sure we should expand this simple idea to full-featured support<br>
of assistive technologies in sugar<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The doubt is how to provide the button in sugar core? If you have any<br>
> ideas or suggestions please reply.<br>
</div>I've just started orca[1] and regular gnome-terminal.. and it doesnt<br>
use any special buttons(in gnome-terminal) -- i think thats the way<br>
sugar should follow.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/orca/" target="_blank">http://projects.gnome.org/orca/</a><br>
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