Hi Alastair,
There has been some thought given to this but as far as I know,
nothing has come of it. I considered setting up a wiki.. I
discovered however that it takes quite a bit of work to do it using
tools that are accessible and was having trouble understanding all of
the processes for settingg one up and maintaining it. There are a
lot of "rules" to follow and the tool I have looks to be quite complex.
There is already a VoiceOver wiki on wikipedia but it just describes
VO or that'ss what it did last I looked.. There are already some
fine resources out there if grown, might bbetter suit this particular
community though. One thing a good interface for us needs to do is
allow a small number to maintain it instead of anyone to post to it
for various reasons. If for instance someone with the skills, time
and energy to do it could plum the archives, vvalidate the
information found, that could be done with the help of others and
produce plain text documents or html pages on how to use VO doing
particular things that have not already been made publicly available,
that would be hugely helpful.
On Jul. Of course, I don't speak for the list members but this has
been what I've observed over the months.
I welcome the thoughts of others and do agree that we need to home
grow a guide to help with learning and using VO and the os and apps.
13, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Alastair Campbell wrote:
Loebl, Ruth wrote:
"We need more and better introductory and training materials"
This is a re-curring theme (even in the 24 hours I've been a member
of the list!)
Quite a few communities use a "wiki" to keep up to date pages on a
certain topic. Anyone can go to any page on a wiki and select "edit",
and it opens a text box to edit the content.
For example, the CSS discuss email list has an outstanding wiki for
learning about CSS:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
It is maintained, updated and monitored by people on the mailing
list. New items of interest get put in the appropriate place on the
wiki as you go along. This helps people who aren't on the list, and
keeps an up to date guide to the topic.
If that sounds like a good idea, I can host that and/or help get it
going? If you would prefer one of the regular list members hosted it,
I could help them set it up (assuming they have suitable hosting).
As a previous reference, I host the (under-used) JAWs scripts
repository:
http://alastairc.ac/jaws-scripts/
Which is a similar idea, but more oriented to collaborative
development of scripts.
Kind regards,
-Alastair
