Onscreen Reading of Malayalam Wikipedia for Visually Challenged People

Satyaseelan, a teacher in Govt. School for the blind, Kasaragod
demonstrating his method of using screen reading software to read Malayalam Wikipedia.

This is a simple way of accessing Malayalam unicode web pages for visually challenged people. Malayalam Wikipedia see this as a futuristic method in the area of accessing knowledge freely and easily for EVERYONE.

Sathyaseelan use a speech engine called eSpeak with specially developed Malayalam support in Ubuntu along with ORCA screen reading software.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Malayalam
• Wikipedia
• knowledge
• kerala
• Govt.
• School
• for
• the
• blind
• Kasaragod
• Sathyaseelan
• Ubuntu
• ORCA
• eSpeak
• visually
• challenged
• reading
• Unicode
• website
• Linux

[firefoxsurya]

I almost cried.

[MrChathen]

May this inspire many more to come forward to join Wikipedia. Am thrilled seeing this. Thanks big time for sharing this.

[rejoykp]

good..!

[pjagadeesh111]

വിക്കിപീഡിയ യില്‍ കൂടുതല്‍ പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുവാനുള്ള പ്രചോദനം തരുന്നു

[nishandhAzhikode]

never imagined that FOSS tools and wikis could be this much usefull to people in contemporary days...



[arjunaraoc]

Inspiring for all Wikipedians. Let's spread this knowledge and help our visually challenged friends.

[vssun9]

വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ യഥാർത്ഥ അംഗീകാരം ഇതാണ്.