ZebraSpeak Let your work speak for itself.

The ZebraSpeak module adds text-to-speech and advanced keyboard interaction to iShell. Together, these two features enable you to create products in iShell that are accessible to blind and physically disabled users.

The Text-to-Speech works with Apple's built in speech synthesizers on Mac OS 9 and OS X. On Windows, it uses the Chant® SpeechKit® engine to provide compatibility with the main speech synthesizers for Windows, including the standard Microsoft¨ speech engines.

The Speak commands are very flexible, allowing you to speak the names and contents of elements, speak the contents of a text, rtf, or html file, or speak a string generated on the fly.

The keyboard interaction tools allow you to build a dynamic list of elements to receive keyboard events, so you can easily create and maintain complex keyboard navigation schemes. A special Tab Handler object is used to automate interaction with "tabbable" elements on a screen, elements that need to respond to the tab and return keys.

ZebraSpeak works with iShell 3 and iShell 4, and requires Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, and Windows 95 or later.

• Download ZebraSpeak for Win / MacOSX / MacOS9 (last updated January 26th, 2006, 5:19 PM EST) (debug).
• ZebraSpeak documentation.
• WCAG Techniques for iShell, using ZebraSpeak

The price of the ZebraSpeak Module is US$495. We offer three payment options.

For more information, contact us at

ZebraSpeak was developed in conjuction with the Adaptive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) at the University of Toronto.
We'd like to thank Chant and CNICE for their contributions in making ZebraSpeak possible.