NVDA Workshop in Japan is held as the satellite event of PyCon JP 2012 on September 16-17, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. NVDA Japanese Team is very happy that Mr. Michael Curran (NV Access Limited, Australia) and Dr. Jerry Wang (Taiwan Digital Talking Books Association) accepted our invitation to visit Japan for this purpose. Mr. Hiroshi […]
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New community and activities of NVDA in Japan
At the end of April, I became one of the members of NVDA translations. At the same time, I started the new group, NVDA Japanese Team, in Japan. Official site is http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/nvdajp/devel/. Localized beta version of NVDA is available. We also release Java Access Bridge 2.0.2 installer and older versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org with […]
NVDA 2012.1j (nvdajp)
We would like to provide information on the activities of Japanese community of NVDA. Currently 2012.1j-beta2 is released. Release by NVDA Japanese Project (nvdajp), based on NVDA 2012.1 from nvda-project.org. Release manager: Takuya Nishimoto (nishimotz atmark gmail.com, Twitter @nishimotz) This release is Japanese localization of the NVDA open-source screen reader for Windows. Changes from original […]
NVDA development in Japan
NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) is developed by an NPO based in Australia. I am participating as the project leader of Japanese localization of NVDA since 2011. Assisitive technlogy is making evolutions, as well as the other technologies. In Japan, most of the core technologies, such as text input method, speech synthesis, and automatic braille translation, […]
pyAA
To test the MSAA-related features of Microsoft Japanese Input Method Editor MS-IME 2002 for Japanese version of Windows, I am working with pyAA. This is a preliminary work for localization of NVDA for Japanese users. I tried to adopt original pyAA to Python 2.6.x. At first I obtained the source code (of simpler branch) from […]
Japanese TTS for NVDA
Objectives Many of tools for the visually impaired to use a PC and the Web are commercial software at present. The following problems occur due to this. The financial problem. It is difficult to follow flexibly and rapidly for a change of needs and the OS environment of the user. The needs cannot be shared […]