This is probably quite a big project, might need to be done in gradual steps.


The idea is to allow the N900 to be operated without the user needing to see it (either a sighted person looking away or someone that is visually impaired)


A few features i can think of right now

Screen reader compatible with hildon, gtk and whatever java uses (am i missing any other big one?) as well as with the terminal.

Saying out loud what key was pressed.

Saying what is under the last tap on the screen, and only when the tap is repeated (less than N pixels away from the previous) actually perform the function that would usually happen when you tap there.

Some sort of image to sound conversion for both camera image and screen, with zoom to where the cursor is as well as whole frame modes (with the zoomed mode dragging on the screen would move the "window" that is being converted into sound isntead of actually passing the dragging to the program running). Is there a vOICe port for freemantle?

Text to speech battery level (somthing like "Battery level: N of X bars left" )





The screen reader(s) should be capable of both reading the whole screen as well as reading just what changed, and also should be compatible at least with microB , reading web pages properly, there might be the need for additional keyboard shortcuts for things like navigating between links, buttons textfields etc in webpages.


With the features already described i would expect the screen reader would work for reading caller ID, time on the clock etc