What did you find when you ran the WAVE accessibility report on your blog post(s)? What did you expect and what was surprising? Is there anything you will do differently going forward?
I put one of my posts into WAVE and was very surprised by the result. The whole page looks very professional and points out many shortcomings in my page. In fact, this is what I considered to be a neater and more orderly style with the experience I’ve gained since I’ve been using OPENED for a long time. WAVE has shown a very detailed review of my site, with all the points marked with codes, and these codes are also interpreted, as well as an analysis of the structure of my pages, covering ‘Summary、Details、Reference、Structure and Contrast’. Actually, I haven’t figured out too much about these specialized modifications and I need more time to study them, but I have learned a lot from WAVE and will do my best to modify my structure better.
Have you used Text to Speech tools before? Did you find it useful? Did you try out some of the different voices? What impact did the different voices have on your ability to absorb information?
I have not used Text to Speech in my studies. I have only used this feature in some reading software. I can listen to the book whenever and wherever I want, which certainly saves my time. Also, there are some voices that can make my concentration higher, while some voices make me unable to focus, and often forget which part I heard or what the previous content was (for example, some AI voices give me a very mechanical feeling). I would like to use Text to Speech later in my learning process, and I think it would be helpful for me to listen and read the text at the same time. For example, when reading a lengthy article, I would have no patience or skip many contents. Listening and reading at the same time might help me in many ways.
October 12, 2022 at 10:53 pm
I will say, if you ever tried translation like built in microphone? All the content you need will be recorded as texts and then processed with 1 second and output to your headphone. It might sound like a simple function, why would people spend money on an unique machine instead of using google translation? Because of instantly process is more efficient and effective, and it helps understaning at the first place.
As same as you, my mother tougne is not English too, so hearing english could be challenging to me, beacuse i do not want to miss every words, and i need time to process what i was hearing because i have to translate english to chinese and make movement logically. It is because of the environment that i was raised is not an english environment, so that my logic deep inside my brain is still transfering messages into the orginal language that i had in my mind. I think this is really a good invention, it helps connect people from different languages.