Currently, on pressing buttons, we are able to signal the system to search for some latest news and play it. However, the main aim of EchoForMe is to assist visually impaired people get an easy effortless access to current news.
The user should be able to see,locate the position of the 'Listen news' button on the screen and then click on it to signal the system to search and read news.
However this is not desired.
We want to use 'Keyboard button press' as an indicator to start gathering news for the software.
Example :
To make it more enhanced, we can use keys like 'Spacebar' which is significantly larger than all other keys and can easily be distinguished just by touch sensation.
To make the feature robust, we can use 3 consecutive quick clicks of Spacebar as a signal to read news. This ensures that any click by mistake does not negatively affect this feature.
Currently, on pressing buttons, we are able to signal the system to search for some latest news and play it. However, the main aim of EchoForMe is to assist visually impaired people get an easy effortless access to current news.
The user should be able to see,locate the position of the 'Listen news' button on the screen and then click on it to signal the system to search and read news. However this is not desired.
We want to use 'Keyboard button press' as an indicator to start gathering news for the software.
Example : To make it more enhanced, we can use keys like 'Spacebar' which is significantly larger than all other keys and can easily be distinguished just by touch sensation.
To make the feature robust, we can use 3 consecutive quick clicks of Spacebar as a signal to read news. This ensures that any click by mistake does not negatively affect this feature.