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Re: PowerPoints and Text to Speech

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Oct 10, 2011 6:42AM

I have seen some other applications that are supposed to convert text to speech for the purpose of adapting the information for someone with a reading -related disability. However, they don't seem to have the same complexity of a screen reader when it comes to picking up information from an application. Of course, I think most of those type of applications start with the assumption that they do not need to have such semantically rich speech output so they rely on simpler mechanisms to acquire the text--mechanisms that do not always work in every situation.


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of LSnider
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 7:52 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] PowerPoints and Text to Speech

Hi Everyone,

Recently I learned a lot about powerpoints and how to make them accessible
for those who use screen readers (thanks to everyone here who provided a ton
of resources). I wondered if any of you had specific tips for those that use
text to speech software? I thought that by making a powerpoint accessible to
someone who uses the screen reader that this would cover other text to
speech converters. Would this not work the same as a screen reader or am I
wrong here?

Thanks!

Lisa