To do so, I think it would be helpful to start with a clearly defined use case to support in a first step (and possibly improve other areas later).
How would you want to tell the Bible program what passage to read? I can come up with some potential ideas, but there are certainly more: First scenario: Read a specific passage. Potential steps for the user: 1) The user enters a specific text passage, e.g. "Matthew 6:25-34" 2) That passage is selected/highlighted in the software.3) The user presses a button or selects a context menu entry and the selected passage is read out.
Second scenario: Speech starts at a specific verse until the user stops it. Potential steps for the user:
1) The users enters (or selects) a specific verse, e.g. "Matthew 6:25"2) The user presses a button or selects a context menu entry and the Bible program starts reading from that verse and goes on 3) At some point, the user presses a button (or takes some other action) to stop this.
Is any of those what you want to do? Or can you describe in more detail how you would like to interact with the software?
In case you are (or somebody else is) interested in having better accessibility in BibleTime, I can offer my help in discussing potential ways to achieve that with BibleTime developers. I can't make any promises, though, and it will certainly take a while and need input on what is needed from a user perspective.
(Besides implementing the text-to-speech part, there are certainly more things to consider on how the user can interact with the software, but in a quick test with the Orca screen reader, it was e.g. already possible to navigate (using the Tab key) to the place where the user can enter a passage and Orca read out what buttons etc. were currently focused, so some "basic level of accessibility" is already there and it should be reasonably possible to address the things that are still missing one after the other.)
BibleTime (like Xiphos) uses the SWORD library/API and thus supports the various Bible translations offered by the SWORD project:
https://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp On 17/11/2021 17.46, Ttl wrote:
I want the program to reed the text blessings Emanuel Skickat från min iPhone17 nov. 2021 kl. 09:23 skrev Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn@posteo.de>: Hi, I'm Michael from Germany. While I'm very interested in accessibility, I don't have any special requirements for accessibility myself. I'm occasionally using Xiphos or Bibletime on Debian. Both weren't fully accessible when I did a quick test with the Orca screen reader. What are the use cases you want the Bible program to support? For example, there is already a request for Bibletime to read out selectable portions of the Bible ( https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/5 ). If there are specific other use cases or problems you're running into, I'd suggest to ask for those in the issue trackers of the corresponding programs, so the developers can consider adding those features.On 13/11/2021 19.16, David Hoff Jr wrote: I use Debian and Slint. I'm in California in the USA. Have used Diatheke in the console in Debian in the past, but unable to find any accessible Bible program for the GUI Desktop. Also use Windows in my work and personal use.
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