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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jun 26, 2015 9:04AM

It wouldn't exactly be a browser-based screen reader like ChromeVox, since
it wouldn't be handling any of the speech synthesis. It would require that
you already had a screen reader that supports those three features I
mentioned. Access Emulator would just handle what got spoken in response
to key commands, using the existing screen reader to handle the voicing.
As I see it, it would have to query the DOM for everything, rather than the
accessibility APIs (unless WAPA becomes a supported standard, I guess).

Thanks for the contact info for the person at Google. Perhaps they would
be interested in this strategy as a way of encouraging people to
standardize on ChromeVox's way of doing things. I'm not sure whether this
would be a good thing, but perhaps it would encourage Google to make
ChromeVox more robust.

Best,
Rob

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Moore,Michael (HHSC) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> This sounds to me like a browser based screen reader with some additional
> diagnostic tools. Have you thought of contacting Charles Chen at Google and
> looking into extending ChromeVox.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
> (512) 574-0091 (Cell)
>
>