Last November, 2007, my company launched an initiative, Sustainable Construction, and I was so proud with the way everything turned out. The book and the website looked great. Then I presented it to someone with visual difficulties. This is not to say that the person was blind, they just had difficulties reading the small letters on websites. When designers want something to look sexy, they don’t really care about people with seeing difficulties, and font size of 8, or 10, may look good, but is not easily readable for people with a visual problem.

So, I did some research and found, among others, Spoken Text.Net, and I really couldn’t believe the voice reproduction quality. Listen to this text buy clicking the MP3 Icon at the end of this article. I think it’s great.

I think Spoken Text.net will have to resolve their business model, as making the recordings available for just 7 days doesn’t make sense. Nevertheless, it’s a great platform, which I will try to see how I can support and utilise in the future.

I did wonder if a similar platform for sign language was being worked on somewhere in the world? I asked about this in Portugal, but nothing going on here.

 

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I recently started to dedicate quite a lot of time on an initiative which, I have to confess, I am really quite excited about. Having developed the idea Joomla!Lisbon with Francis Doody, he was invited to join forces with a contact he established in America. We are agreed to be part of Wicked Web Consulting and Joomla!America, to offer a full range of services on the Internet, ranging from: Domain Registration, Hosting, Website Development, Consulting, Maintenance, etc…

It’s been a lot of work (what’s new) but I have this feeling that something nice has started. I will no doubt keep you in touch on this in the future.

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