[Bug-gnubg] Fwd: idea for gnubg

[Michael Petch]

I am forwarding this to the GNUBG mailing list for all the developers to read.

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Subject:	idea for gnubg
Date:	Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:50:42 -0400
From:	Michael Taboada <address@hidden>
To:	<address@hidden>, <address@hidden>

Hi,
My name is Michael, and I am a blind backgammon player. So far, there is absolutely no analysis software out there for blind backgammon players. I have contacted several makers of analysis software to ask for accessibility to be implemented into their software if possible, but none have seemed possible or willing to do this. I am emailing you for that very reason. I use a screen reader called Jaws for Windows and also Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) regularly. I decided to contact you because I found that your program uses python. It should be relatively simple, then, to integrate speech into your application. If you wished to do this (and I would be greatful if you could) then there is a python  library that can do this relatively easily. It is called accessible output, and can be found here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/accessible_output/0.5.5
Eagerly awaiting your response,
-Michael.