Speech-Enablement of Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Rich Client Applications Using AspectJ

摘要

Current efforts to provide accessibility typically support third-party reconstruction of the application context. They have enabled users with diverse abilities to gain access but their user experiences remain impoverished compared to that for able-bodied users. For rich user accessibility experiences, assistive technologies need appropriate and meaningful access to application semantics and context. In turn, the technologies need to exploit the particular modalities (e.g., speech) to render the application context appropriate to the user's special needs. Take for instance a monthly calendar rendered by a visual application as a table widget. For a blind user, rather than reading the particular date (e.g., December 17, 2004) as the value 17 at the third row of the sixth column, the assistive technology should be aware that it is a monthly calendar object and speak the 17th as the third Friday of December. Similarly, other users with diverse abilities, such as a visually impaired user, require a different and optimal solution tailored to their special needs.