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By "a more accessibility-focused proprietary OS", do you mean MS Windows? Or MacOS? Or both? So far, the strategy of controlling X-windows apps via piecemeal sc
by pomatic 4y ago
By "a more accessibility-focused proprietary OS", do you mean MS Windows? Or MacOS? Or both? So far, the strategy of controlling X-windows apps via piecemeal scripts seems to be paying off OK. The ideal would be full voice control of all UI interactions at an application level. Free form text entry in, say, an editor is easier to deal with. It is handled by injection of keyboard events from third party speech recognition tools that allows for correction prior to final confirmation if required.
If PowerShell or Applescript have significantly better capabilities in this arena (or if there is an alternative tool I should be looking at, or other resources that might be useful in the quest), it would be great to hear. At the end of the day though, the end user is dev, and wants a Linux desktop.
- chefandy 4y agoPretty sure Mac has some similar stuff, but this is the Windows 10/11 built-in voice command functionality. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-speech-recognition-commands-9d25ef36-994d-f367-a81a-a326160128c7 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-speech-r... I imagine someone could use their computer almost entirely through that save things that require precise mouse usage like photo editing or video games. Even then, you can achieve rough mouse usage through their on-screen grid, so you can do some things.
- chefandy 4y agoI know that Windows is generally the choice for blind users because of the well-worn accessibility framework access.