Re: [orca-list] Orca for Android?

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

Thanks for the link!  I tried spiel just for fun on the Nexus One, and
as you probably would guess, it had problems.  Let me know when you've
got access to 2.1, and can get spiel working there.

Thanks,
Bill

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> > Would it make sense for Google to adapt Orca for Android to make all
> > these things accessible?  Is that hard?
>
> They're writing their own (free and open-source) screen reader for it,
> Talkback. It's implemented in Java and uses the accessibility API for Android.
>
> I've looked at the source code but I don't have hardware yet with which to
> test it. At some point in the future I'll probably get hardware, but it isn't
> an immediate priority for me just at the moment.
>
> svn checkout http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk eyes-free
> for anyone who is interested.
>
> You will also find a number of custom speaking applications in that
> repository.
>
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