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Re: does datepicker have to be accessible

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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 8, 2011 9:03AM

Terrill

Not to wear too far off topic, but how did you record screen readers
reading phrases?
I need to do just that for a math reading demonstration, but my
Windows recorder does not pick up sound from my soundcard output.
So if you have an accessible light recording software I can use to
record screen reader speech, please email me, on or off-list.
Thanks
-B

On 2/8/11, Terrill Bennett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> AWK said:
>
> "I wonder whether screen reader vendors have considered parsing the
> text and analyzing whether there is a phone number or a common date
> identifier. They should - I doubt that many people will stop using
> mm/dd/yyyy since it is short, and also avoids confusion for people
> who might enter the date as dd/mm/yyyy...."
> -----------------------------------
>
> Some of how data is read is left to your choice of what voice and/or
> synthesizer you use with your screen reader. I have recorded NVDA
> using the default eSpeak (Max) vs. the SAPI 5 with both NaturalVoice
> (Crystal) and Microsoft (Mike). There are very notable differences!
>
> eSpeak Max doesn't do great job. Crystal does nicely. Mike does ok,
> if he just didn't read the MM in "MM DD YY" as "millimeters!" Mike
> even says "area code" in both phone numbers.
>
> No other settings were changed other than switching synthesizers and
> voices. Here are my recordings:
>
> http://bennett1.org/webAim/datephone/
>
> -- terrill --
>
>