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Date: 03/19/04 00:56:01
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Subject: RE: [WSG] Next Sydney meeting - a fantastic guest presenter
Hmmm yes, we have access to three (mini) DV cameras that I know of.
Processing all that video will be a bit of a pain though
On 19 Mar 2004, at 00:43, russ weakley wrote:
The next Sydney meeting has been moved back from the 8th to the 15th
April
to avoid the Easter long weekend.
If I'm still in Sidders, I'll come along, but I think I'll be somewhere
near Melbourne or NZ by then
:-( I mean, for missing the meeting
Wow - really looking forward to this - it's something that many of us
try to support without ever having used screen reader or even knowing a
blind person. I expect there will be a lot of learningand changes
in the aftermath.
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 01:11, Tim Lucas wrote:
Thanks Russ, Peter
For non-Sydney members, he has promised to write up a list of his top 50
accessibility issues. We will post this to the group.
Very exciting!
Russ
I'm very, VERY interested in reading what David has to say about
accessibility with regard to the needs of blind users, so I'll be
looking forward
Leslie Riggs spoke the following wise words on 19/03/2004 2:13 AM EST:
If only I could get to Sydney...but it is not to be.
Anybody got a DV-Cam? Maybe for meetings we could video guest speakers
(with their permission of course), type up transcripts and post both to
the website along with their
Hmmm yes, we have access to three (mini) DV cameras that I know of.
Processing all that video will be a bit of a pain though. We'll probably do
an hour with David so it may not be very practical, and I don't really want
to serve that much video from my server. Maybe someone in Sydney can
Leslie
You (and others) may be interested in CMML via the CSIRO -
http://www.annodex.net/index.html.
The Annodex technology extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking,
searching, and compositing infrastructure to time-continuous data,
enabling e.g. /video surfing/, searching for clips of audio
On that note have you considered just releasing it straight on to video
or dvd and selling it? It'd be a laborious job to have to edit and web
format all that footage and equally laborious to have to watch it via
the web. I think this kind of thing (especially a run through of how
blind users
I have been fortunate to watch/listen to Ryan from the WA office of the the Royal
Blind Society demonstrating his screen reader on a couple of occassions and answer
dumb questions from a sighted audience. It changed the way I construct websites. My
advice if you are in Sydney, go listen to
