Mozilla based accessibility

Project Description

New Game plan: I am working on tutorials designed for sighted users who want use the open source text-to-speech, extension for the Firefox web browser.

To work with the accessibility team on screen reader compatibility issues outside of Firefox, fixing bugs using XUL in Songbird or Thunderbird or Sunbird calendar etc.

Project Leader(s)

Erin Davey(eldavey)

Project Contributor(s)

Michael Lau (mylau)

Project Details

New Game plan: Tutorials on:

• How to use CLC-4-TTS Click to Speak
• How to configure the TTS icons
• How to setup the Click to Speak
• How install, enable or disable the CLC-4-TTS
• How to enable other languages (Cantonese) and how to setup the SAPI 5 via control panel

Old Game Plan: Will be working in XUL on Windows because I have experience with the sr's. New Game plan: I am working on tutorials designed for sighted users who want use the open source text-to-speech, extension for the Firefox web browser.

Project News

November 26, 2006

November 23, 2006

• Met with Janet,
  • She has lots of user that have difficulty using the Multilingual component.
• Made an appointment for next week to go over the tutorials

November 22, 2006

• talked to Melissa Peh and she will be assisting me in recording the final run of the tutorials
• talked to Eva Or and she will be assisting me in recording the Multilingual component in Cantonese.

Michael Lau (mylau) is giving me a crash course in XULRunner

I am currently playing with firefox extensions

• http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/advmenu.html

Currently Learning XUL

• http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-xul.html

• http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/base/content/browser.xul