[Athen] screen readers other than jaws? powerpoint access

[Steve Lee]

Thanks EA

Powertalk is not a tool to make PowerPoint more accessible when editing
presentations. It automatically narrates presentation text when giving a
presentation

The concept of Powertaalk is it lets you run any presentation as usual
using Powerpoint and it reads the text as it appears. When you run
PowerTalk it simply starts PowerPoint and passes text to Windows SAPI Text
to Speech (TTS). That way it handles any language, assuming you have
suitable voice installed. YOur presentation can contain anythig you like -
Powertalk only gets interested in the text.

You can use Sounds or recorded annotation (which are audio) on your
presentation, but there is no syncronisation so it is possible the
PowerTalk TTS naration will clash. You should be able to minmise that with
careful design of your slides

NVDA works well with IBM symphony but not as well with OpenOffice or
LibreOffice. However now OpenOffice has enteredthe Apache incubatin process
it's very likely the required support for tools such as NVDA will be
included. I don't know about MS Office as the accessibility glue is
differeent. but you can no doubt find out on he NVDA site or community.

I hope that helps.

Steve Lee
OpenDirective - opendirective.com
On Jan 8, 2012 6:55 PM, "E.A. Draffan" <ea at emptech.info> wrote:
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