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Japanese L18N of NVDA: Non-Visual Desktop Access

2011-08-27 PyCon JP

Takuya NISHIMOTO @nishimotz 西本卓也 @24motz

#nvdajp （NVDA Japanese community） #nvdahiro （NVDA Hiroshima）

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Who I am... お前、誰よ

Takuya NISHIMOTO (nishimotz.com)

Assistant professor (until Mar 2011)

Kyoto Institute of Technology / The University of Tokyo

Ph.D. (Waseda University)

spoken dialog software: Galatea Toolkit

accessibility for visually impaired

Olarbee Japan (olarbee.com) (since Apr 2011)

consultant, developer, researcher..

Facebook: visit and press Like! （いいね！）

NVDAユーザ会広島

2011-10-01 OSC広島

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Accessibility

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Japanese IME + key-echo Roman characters system for input

2 or 3 strokes for 1 syllable of character(s)

k a = か / s h a = しゃ

Specialized key-echo is given

k (k) a (ka) / s (s) h (h) a (sha)

Auditory interface is important

同音異義語 homophones: air / heir

in Kanji characters: SEIKAKU せいかく

性格？正確？

性格 (personality) 性質 のセイ(nature) 格言 のカク(proverb)

正確 (precise) 正しい のセイ(correct) 確か のカク(certain)

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Screen Reader NVDA PC operation without pointing device

Input: keyboard / Output: Text-to-Speech, braille display

NVDA : Non-Visual Desktop Access

Python / C++ / scons / bazaar / Trac

Windows XP or later (32bit/64bit)

USB portable / installer

GNU General Public License (Version 2)

supporting more than 20 languages

worth 1000 dollars(?)

Japanese TTS based on Open JTalk, MMDAgent

Reusability: Tweet it Loud! by id:atsuoishimoto

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NVDA Communities nvda-project.org

NPO (NVAccess inc.): grant, donation

Translations: messages, documents (including Japanese)

NVDA Japanese localization project

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/nvdajp/

IME / Text-to-speech / braille display

domestic applications

Bazaar / launchpad.net

Twitter: #nvdajp @nvdajp

Regional / Special-Interested Groups

NVDA-Hiroshima #nvdahiro

NVDAJP friends: support for employment, etc.