I’ve gone back to the AI workbench, much like I did with my Image Description Toolkit, to create another app. This time it is to address the goal to make sports scores and play-by-play information easier to read and avoid some of the long-standing accessibility challenges on leading sports web sites.
I’m calling this app a preview release because not everything is working yet but I have enough functionality available that I wanted to share it now.
I have an audio demo of the app along with a transcript of the demo. The release page with notes and links to download the Windows program are at Release Sports Scores 0.5 Preview Release · kellylford/Scores.
The program uses lists, trees and tables to show things like game scores, play-by-play action, box scores and standings. The info itself comes from APIs made available by leading sports providers. I’m just showing it in ways that work better in my opinion with screen readers and other assistive technology.
Perhaps the most interesting feature I have so far is the ability to hear baseball pitch location and speed by converting pitch data to audio sounds. The demo has a sample of this and within the app you can press Alt+p to hear the location of any pitch when you are on that pitch in the play-by-play details. Press Alt+s to hear the entire pitch sequence. Bring up the context menu on a pitch for these options plus a Pitch Explorer feature to get a sense of how the sounds for different locations and pitches will be presented.
In addition to the release page, the GitHub project has a readme with full details on the app. An issue list where you can report new issues or discover what’s already known is available.
Give the app a try and if you are interested in contributing to the project, please do so.
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