odt2braille: Generating Braille from OpenOffice.org Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven, Belgium
[email protected] ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Motivation & Problem Area (1) ●
Braille ●
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faces competition from TTS and digital talking books important for functional literacy only reading method for deafblind persons
AEGIS project (www.aegis-project.eu) ●
Mainstreaming accessibility
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Many open source prototypes ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Motivation & Problem Area (2) ●
Braille production: current methods: ●
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RoboBraille: e-mail based Braille translation agent AutoBraille & NorBraille: multi-volume Braille books based on DAISY Dots: open-source Braille transcriber for GNOME (relies on liblouisxml) Tiger Software Suite (TSS), Braille Maker, WinBraille: embossing from MS Word and other Microsoft applications ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
odt2braille Objectives Enable end-users to produce Braille ●
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In a free, open-source and crossplatform office suite => OpenOffice.org as Braille authoring environment Reduce or eliminate the need for editing Braille codes after export Emboss directly or just export ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Methodology ●
Build OpenOffice.org extension
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Reuse existing tools: ●
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liblouisxml: open-source library for Braille transcription of XML docs liblouis: Braille translation engine pef2text (DAISY Pipeline): converts Portable Embosser Format to generic or embosser-specific format library from odt2daisy ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Results (1) Alpha 0.02 released 30 August 2010: ●
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OpenDocument Text (ODT) can be embossed on small list of embossers (Interpoint, Index Braille, Braillo) Export to “Braille Formatted files” (.brf; .bra) Export to Portable Embosser Format (PEF): embosser-independent; uses XML and Unicode ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Results (2) ●
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Braille settings stored as metadata in ODT Braille support for ± 30 languages, mainly through liblouis UI localised in ●
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English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese,...
Currently only on Windows ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Screenshot: Settings - General
ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Screenshot: Emboss
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Conclusion and Outlook ●
Ideally not just Writer but also Calc (spreadsheets) and Impress (presentations)
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Support for larger set of embossers
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Availability on non-Windows platforms
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Possibly support for other formats such as Universal Tactile Document (UTD) Accessibility check to be run before (Braille/DAISY/PDF) export ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
Contact Information ●
odt2braille (LGPL 3+):
http://odt2braille.sf.net/ ●
odt2daisy (LGPL 3+):
http://odt2daisy.sf.net/ ●
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Use the software, submit bugs, contribute to localisation, ... AEGIS: http://www.aegis-project.eu/ Christophe Strobbe:
[email protected] ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 October 2010
