i would like to get going with this if i can on the mac?
mike
On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:45 PM, David Hole wrote:
Wooohoy...This sounds quite funny :) haha
You didn't mention where to register and so on...? Could you post
the URLs we need to know? Actually I'd like to try this out :) Do
one need to pay something to use SL?
Wich kind of dog is that guide dog? Is it a black beautyful Labrador
retriever?
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Hi all,
Yesterday, while attempting to find updates on this project since
the blind second life blog doesn't seem to be updating anymore with
this new-found info, I'll say it below.
Luise Later, an SL real life visually impaired (Not totally blind)
user created both a cane and a guide dog, scripted, mind you, to
alert us of portals etc when navigating. I don't know what the
difference between the cane or guide dog are, or weather you need
both of them, but regardless the items are free.
She also uses a SL screen reader (Well I think it's being made into
one) called EVA, which speaks objects around you. Don't ask me how
that works. I just created my SL account from Virtual Ability
which, BTW, makes the account sign up for second life as accessible
as filling out a form. An accessible form, that is. Oh, did I
mention audio captcha?
And since I'm also sending this out to Mac lists, I'll just say
this. I haven't tried the SL client yet with VoiceOver. Thus, I
have yet to find out if you can even interact with anything for
even just logging in. I guess logging into SL is accessible on the
windows side. I'll be trying this all out tomorrow, asuming I don't
have any homework. And before I forget, the cane/dog development
team does have one totally blind developer, so it's not just VI
working on the project. Sure, it's only one, but at least he's
giving feedback to the project for totally blind users.
The reason why we can't use it on Mac is just one problem, even if
you can login with VO. Eva. Eva is for windows only. Without that,
we can't communicate and hear what's around us.
Okay. Well, here is the blog posting on the promotion of Luise's
presentation on this which we all mist.
http://tentacolor.com/2008/08/30/the-scripted-leading-the-blind
Hope to see all you guys who like testing an incompleted product to
come join me. I'd hate to do this alone with the team. Or, at
least, I think I'd be the only one...
thanks for reading
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