Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

["Steve Lee" <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

Willie, these are great and don't need that much polishing
I also think just the right level for advocacy so people can see what
accessibility options Linux/Solaris has.

* Get them on you tube so they can easily be linked to and included in
channels like AbilityNet's (http://uk.youtube.com/abilitynet)

* the volume was very low for me (mplayer on Ubuntu)

STeve

2008/10/1 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com>:
> Hey All:
>
> Here's some quick examples of what I was thinking about for demos of the
> accessibility support for GNOME.  The target audience currently is
> unfortunately only for sighted people who can hear (sorry - it's my
> first real experiment with recordmydesktop), and these are geared more
> towards the short "elevator pitch" demo that you'd give at a talk rather
> than intending to be a complete tutorial.
>
> http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/dwell-click.avi
> http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/theming.avi
> http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/keyboard-enhancements.avi
> http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/enable-a11y.avi
>
> I'm kind of proud of the creative use of the cheese application in the
> keyboard-enhancements video.  ;-)  These were just quick unscripted
> demos that I rattled off kind of fast, so there's definitely room for
> improvement.  I wish, for example, I knew how to edit/splice things so I
> didn't have to do them in one take.
>
> Let me know what you think.  If you like them, I can do more for GOK,
> Dasher, and Orca.  I can also redo these make them a little more
> professional if people think these are useful.  Remember, these are just
> for giving you an idea of what's available and not meant to be
> instructional videos.
>
> Will
>
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:18 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > I think the idea of stock presentations and demos (something you
> > > proposed earlier this year) is an awesome idea.
> >
> > Yup! Me too.
> >
> > > I need to ramp back up on this stuff soon as well since I will be doing
> > > a few presentations in the coming months.  I'm more than willing to put
> > > my stuff under some sort of public repository somewhere.  I'd prefer
> > > something that makes it really really easy for me to upload docs and
> > > also really easy obtain them.
> >
> > Me too. Right now we were using the wiki, but for presentations &
> > screencasts, that just seems wrong. That slide sharing site and YouTube
> > or Google Video seem like better fits.
> >
> > > What do you think about making some sort of gnome-marketing module in
> > > GNOME svn where we could be somewhat free about uploading and grabbing
> > > things?
> >
> > I wouldn't mind myself - I suspect that a significant minority of
> > participants in the marketing list probably don't have svn commit
> > access, though.
> >
> > > PS - We also have some money left over in the GNOME Outreach Program:
> > > Accessibility budget.  I was thinking about trying to create a task for
> > > someone to create a bunch of short screencast videos of the assistive
> > > technologies in action (i.e., here's theming, here's stickykeys, here's
> > > bouncekeys, here's GOK in dwell mode, here's Dasher, here's MouseTweaks,
> > > here's Orca, etc.).  What do you think about that?
> >
> > I think this is a wonderful idea! And an excellent way to get some
> > non-technical contributions.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
>
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Steve Lee
Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility
fullmeasure.co.uk