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

[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.
>