Thursday 16 September 2010

Useful Apple-related site

http://atmac.org/speak-it-keyboard-based-text-to-speech-for-ipadiphone

Speak it is a great app for the iPhone and is now available on the iPad. This site seems to have lots of useful advice on accessibility and the Apple range of products.

Wednesday 1 September 2010

Listen to this site

Came across a great accessible site today for the Food Standards Agency: http://www.food.gov.uk/
At the bottom left, there is a Listen to this site link. This led to a link that looked like this:
http://spoxy4.insipio.com/generator/en/www.food.gov.uk/
An exploration of the DixerIT Plus logo led to this site: http://www.championinternet.com/dixeritplus/ and http://voice.phiware.com/

http://voice.phiware.com/ is a hosted solution that gives any website text to speech functionality, making it more accessible. The voice is very human compared to those I've come across before. I was impressed.