2014-01-27, 00:24
For screen reading stuff, I was thinking it might be good to summarize what APIs we have that would allow someone to hook existing screen reader software into XBMC. So rather than trying to have a screen reader read the normal XBMC GUI, it would actually be reading text from JSON-RPC and/or a web interface. The idea came up in another thread where we used the iOS XBMC remote app to act as a text-to-speech interface for XBMC, using the iOS accessibility features, as the remote can basically act as a drop-in interface for directories, add-ons, the library, etc.
We could have a wiki page or some kind of future job board that mentions the use-case and the APIs, so that if no one internally wants to work on it we can easily attract outside developers who might be looking to develop a solution for XBMC. It would basically say "this is what we want", and "this is what is available", etc.
For the seeing-imparied type features (larger font, high contrast), it would be awesome to summarize a similar job/task page to lure skinners into making such an accessibility skin. Or something very basic, like taking an existing simplified skin like xTV-SAF, and making sure all fonts meet a minimal size, could be a good option. If we could make it so that a skin could also override subtitle settings, that would make a nice single-step install for those individuals.
We could have a wiki page or some kind of future job board that mentions the use-case and the APIs, so that if no one internally wants to work on it we can easily attract outside developers who might be looking to develop a solution for XBMC. It would basically say "this is what we want", and "this is what is available", etc.
For the seeing-imparied type features (larger font, high contrast), it would be awesome to summarize a similar job/task page to lure skinners into making such an accessibility skin. Or something very basic, like taking an existing simplified skin like xTV-SAF, and making sure all fonts meet a minimal size, could be a good option. If we could make it so that a skin could also override subtitle settings, that would make a nice single-step install for those individuals.
