This is a very simple project, but I got to learn a lot about accessible web technology and overall, it was a very fun "first" hackathon.
Inspiration
Support-a-thon is a hackathon aimed at accessibility and accessible tech. This project is geared towards exactly that. The inspiration also comes from The a11y Project, the NYU Ability Project among others.
What it does
The project consists of a simple webpage with input fields and form controls. Its main function is to read aloud the text provided by the user.
How we built it
It is built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the JavaScript library p5.js.
Challenges we ran into
- The biggest challenge was cross-browser compatibility, which has not been fully resolved yet
- Pointing the site to a domain was also a big challenge
- We hope to keep working on any bugs in the future
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We managed to build a basic interface where the user can enter some text, and also got the Speech Synthesis working.
What we learned
- Web Speech API
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