How to build a forum with a Readspeaker ?

Roderik

Is there any chance this thread can also get tagged with "Services"?

Roderik

I found out that it is actually a company. I didn't know ReadSpeaker was a company, but it seems they are offering what we are looking for. Now, it is just a matter of how we can implement it.

Kylo

Roderik Did you try to contact with them? Since they run the business, I think they can offer you some other platforms to comply with your needs. I'm not saying that Flarum is not capable of improving accesibility (on the contrary, almost everyting is possible with their extension API), but the beginning is always the hardest and definitely will take some time.

PeterKurvers

Thanks for the quick answers.
Those notifications are very extensive. 😄

Some examples for the accesebility :

Keyboard navigation
Font size
different font
underline links
Highlight links
Highlight titles.
black and white
invert color.
big or small mouse cursor
Sepia
Inspector stand.

Some of our users need help using the forum.
Can a moderator adjust their settings ?
For example "Automatically follow discussions that I reply to."

Gretings, Peter

tankerkiller125

PeterKurvers Font size

Can be adjusted with some basic CSS/LESS

PeterKurvers different font

Again CSS/LESS

PeterKurvers underline links
Highlight links

This I think could be done via css? Not sure though

PeterKurvers black and white

The forum is already pretty black and white, however wherever you see the orange here on discuss that is customizable by the admin in the appearance settings.

PeterKurvers invert color.

This might be possible with an extension, however I would personally recommend that this be done via browser extensions.

PeterKurvers big or small mouse cursor

This is something that from my understanding is controlled by the operating system, I don't know/think this can be customized by CSS

PeterKurvers Sepia

Probably CSS/LESS?

PeterKurvers Inspector stand.

Not exactly sure what this is?

PeterKurvers Some of our users need help using the forum.
Can a moderator adjust their settings ?
For example "Automatically follow discussions that I reply to."

This is not built into the forum but I'm sure it could be done with a custom extension.

PeterKurvers

tankerkiller125 Not exactly sure what this is?

That is that the mouse cursor has a magnifying glass.

And I find the quote function very user-friendly 😀

tankerkiller125

PeterKurvers That feature would be an operating system thing, not a forum thing. Honestly you would want inversion and magnifying to be OS wide I'm guessing.

Kylo

I'm starting to realize that you don't need to touch Flarum actually. Because everything you asking for can be done through OS settings or Browser extensions and if you really need to deal with 'all kind of disabilities', this should be the correct route to follow. Just let them use their own setups that they're comfortable with.

PeterKurvers

Kylo I'm starting to realize that you don't need to touch Flarum actually.

Our current platform for internal communications has all these options for visually impaired people.
But it has no quote function, does not sort the threads by date of the latest post.
It has no e-mail notification, and no advatar.
And the read speaker can only start at the top of the page.

So if people who need it, can make changes to their brouwser, we can build a good forum with Flarum. 😀

clarkwinkelmann

Step-by-step implementation instructions. No downloads necessary. Just a few lines of code added to your website and ReadSpeaker webReader is ready.
https://www.readspeaker.com/solutions/text-to-speech-online/readspeaker-webreader/

Sadly it doesn't seem their documentation is available online without contacting them.

What I'd suggest would be to contact them, get access to the instructions, try if they work on Flarum (I would be surprised, but maybe some of the features will work out of the box).

Then if work is needed you could look for a Flarum developer and share the implementation instructions with them. It might be worth asking ReadSpeaker what recommendations they have for Single Page Apps (SPA). Most likely their solution works out of the box on server-side-rendered websites, but most likely not in SPA.

Kylo

PeterKurvers I'm not sure if I get it right but, here's how I'm using Discuss without any modification made in core files or without any extensions (I'm just an user here):

Click here to reveal

and I'm sure further changes can be made through browser add-ons. If they're visually impaired then you should teach them to set their preferences "globally" - not just for your forum.

Only thing you need is a solid TTS implemention.

PeterKurvers

Thanks for the answers. 😄

How do we get about the same color scheme as on this site?
https://www.oogvereniging.nl/english/

I think that should be possible, because the 1st welcome message that was automatically placed when starting
a test forum looks great. 😃

Greetings, Peter

clarkwinkelmann

PeterKurvers unless that other website is based on Flarum (it doesn't look like it), you will have to write the theme yourself.

You can change the "main" color of Flarum, which influences the header and primary buttons under the Appearance tab.

For anything more advance, you'll need to create a theme via custom CSS or via an extension.