1. Japanese L18N of NVDA:
Non-Visual Desktop Access
2011-08-27 PyCon JP
Takuya NISHIMOTO @nishimotz
西本卓也 @24motz
#nvdajp （NVDA Japanese community）
#nvdahiro （NVDA Hiroshima）
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2. Who I am... お前、誰よ
 Takuya NISHIMOTO (nishimotz.com)
 Assistant professor (until Mar 2011)
 Kyoto Institute of Technology / The University of Tokyo
 Ph.D. (Waseda University)
 spoken dialog software: Galatea Toolkit
 accessibility for visually impaired
 Olarbee Japan (olarbee.com) (since Apr 2011)
 consultant, developer, researcher..
 Facebook: visit and press Like! （いいね！）
 NVDAユーザ会広島
 2011-10-01 OSC広島
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4. Accessibility
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8. Japanese IME + key-echo
 Roman characters system for input
 2 or 3 strokes for 1 syllable of character(s)
 k a = か / s h a = しゃ
 Specialized key-echo is given
 k (k) a (ka) / s (s) h (h) a (sha)
 Auditory interface is important
 同音異義語 homophones: air / heir
 in Kanji characters: SEIKAKU せいかく
 性格？正確？
 性格 (personality) 性質 のセイ(nature) 格言 のカク(proverb)
 正確 (precise) 正しい のセイ(correct) 確か のカク(certain)
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9. Screen Reader NVDA
 PC operation without pointing device
 Input: keyboard / Output: Text-to-Speech, braille display
 NVDA : Non-Visual Desktop Access
 Python / C++ / scons / bazaar / Trac
 Windows XP or later (32bit/64bit)
 USB portable / installer
 GNU General Public License (Version 2)
 supporting more than 20 languages
 worth 1000 dollars(?)
 Japanese TTS based on Open JTalk, MMDAgent
 Reusability: Tweet it Loud! by id:atsuoishimoto
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10. NVDA Communities
 nvda-project.org
 NPO (NVAccess inc.): grant, donation
 Translations: messages, documents (including Japanese)
 NVDA Japanese localization project
 http://sourceforge.jp/projects/nvdajp/
 IME / Text-to-speech / braille display
 domestic applications
 Bazaar / launchpad.net
 Twitter: #nvdajp @nvdajp
 Regional / Special-Interested Groups
 NVDA-Hiroshima #nvdahiro
 NVDAJP friends: support for employment, etc.
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