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== Project News ==
 
== Project News ==
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November 28, 2006
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*Camtasia Studio Missing a driver and I am getting the blue screen of death trying to resolve If I don't find a solution going to look into
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Microsoft's new free screen recorder.
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November 27, 2006
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*dry run of icons and tts engine
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* ran into problem with Captivate has a delay
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November 26, 2006
 
November 26, 2006
 
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*First draft of tutorials.
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*screenshots
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*dry run of install
  
 
November 23, 2006  
 
November 23, 2006  
*Met with Janet,
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*Met with Janet
**She has lots of user that have difficulty using the Multilingual component.  
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**She has lots of users that have difficulty using the Multilingual component and asked if a tutorial could be done to show the setup of this feature.  
*Made an appointment for next week to go over the tutorials  
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*Made an appointment for next week to go over the tutorials.
  
 
November 22, 2006
 
November 22, 2006
*talked to [[User:melz|Melissa Peh]] and she will be assisting me in recording the final run of the tutorials
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*Talked to [[User:melz|Melissa Peh]] and she will be assisting me in recording the final run of the tutorials.
*talked to [[User:Eor|Eva Or]] and she will be assisting me in recording the Multilingual component in Cantonese.  
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*Talked to [[User:Eor|Eva Or]] and she will be assisting me in recording the Multilingual component in Cantonese.  
  
  

Revision as of 10:17, 29 November 2006

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 28, 2006

  • Camtasia Studio Missing a driver and I am getting the blue screen of death trying to resolve If I don't find a solution going to look into

Microsoft's new free screen recorder.


November 27, 2006

  • dry run of icons and tts engine
  • ran into problem with Captivate has a delay


November 26, 2006

  • First draft of tutorials.
  • screenshots
  • dry run of install

November 23, 2006

  • Met with Janet
    • She has lots of users that have difficulty using the Multilingual component and asked if a tutorial could be done to show the setup of this feature.
  • 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

Currently Learning XUL