mp3s or oggs of Ubuntu docs

[Matthew East]

On Tue, April 10, 2007 2:56 am, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007, Matt A wrote:
> | Hello
> |
> | I am semi visually impaired and i don't read long things like books so
> | well. So when I needed to read the Ubuntu Packaging guide I search
> google
> | to see if i could find an mp3 version of that guide when that failed I
> made
> | one using festival text2wave and lame. I was wondering has anyone ever
> done
> | that before. If so I would like to help him/her/them. If not can anyone
> can
> | anyone give me advice on how best to go about sharing my work.
> |
> |
> | Matt A
>
> Matt,
>
> Awesome! I think that is a wonderful idea and truthfully I believe you are
> the
> first I have heard about that has done something like this. I think it
> would
> be great if we could somehow implement this with our main documentation
> site,
> but of course that would be up to the maintainers, which I am hoping
> respond
> to this.
>
> If this goes through, I see you being very busy, as we will want all docs
> done
> like this ;)  Anyways, if it does go through, that would make Ubuntu a
> definite champ when it comes to accessibility as I do not know of any
> other
> distros that do something like this.
>
> Matt? Jordan? Corey?

It sounds like a good idea to me, although don't screen readers do this
already? My knowledge of accessibility is very poor, but I had assumed
that screenreaders would be able to read our documentation out loud.

CC:ing ubuntu-accessibility for their input.

Matt
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