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Download podcasts and transcripts from Accessibility 2.0

Accessibility 2.0 was a practical conference focussing on web accessibility in a Web 2.0 world, organised by Abilitynet held back in April. Podcasts, transcripts and presentations from the event are now available for download at Podcasts and transcripts : Accessibility 2.0.

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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, Accessibility, Multimedia, On the web, Social Media, Nptech.
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A video tour of accessibility

Jon Gibbons on his dotjay.co.uk site has collated an impressive list of videos that demonstrate accessibility in order to help others gain insight into how assistive technology is used, particularly with regards to the Web, and its value to those who use it. Visit the site and read the article - Assistive Technology: a video tour of accessibility.

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Posted on August 18th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, Accessibility, Web, Multimedia, On the web, Social Media.
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Deafness and the User Experience

Deafness and the User Experience is a recent article at A List Apart that helps you to a better understanding of deafness, highlighting the need to stop thinking of deafness as simply the inverse of hearing, but to understand deafness from both a cultural and linguistic perspective. A great overview with lots of suggestions on how to ensure your site is more usable and accessible for all.

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Posted on August 16th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, Accessibility, Participation, Multimedia, On the web, Web design, Social Media, Nptech.
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Adding an Audio Feed

To help enable my blog to become more accessible to a wider audience, I’ve added an audio feed.
I’ll share with you how I’ve gone about it and why.

I’ve been looking into audio feeds and podcasting recently, trying to see how I can use them in my site. I discovered a nice free tool to enable easy feeds and podcasts which I’ve now implemented on my site.

I used the ReadSpeaker AudioFeed which is powered by Readspeaker.

It’s really easy to set up and all you need is a normal RSS feed to enable this to work.
ReadSpeaker AudioFeed uses the latest in automatic speech conversion to create the voice from the text. (hence why if you have a listen, it is not my voice!).

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Posted on August 15th, 2007 | Posted in: Accessibility, Multimedia, Social Media.
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Social Bookmarking in plain english

A ‘must see’ - new online video on Social Bookmarking in Plain English by Commoncraft. Spotted on Beth’s Blog.

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Posted on August 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Side Notes, Multimedia, Social Media, Nptech.
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Easy ways to learn and understand GIMP

Lifehacker website posted a video tutorial for the excellent GIMP, which is an open source, cross-platform powerful alternative to photoshop. The video is part of a series of ten video tutorials by VN Tutor, covering the basics through to intermediate levels.

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Posted on August 4th, 2007 | Posted in: Side Notes, Multimedia, Foss.
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HBO’s amazing new multimedia project

HBO’s Voyeur Project
The HBO Voyeur Project is an amazing new multimedia example and experience that just shows what can be achieved, with good design, good audio and a theme that certainly captures your imagination. It's set in New York and tells a story behind each of the windows of various parts of town.

You can delve deeper into learning about the characters and the blog of understanding what its all about at The Story Gets Deeper, and find out more about the project at HBO's main site.

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Posted on July 13th, 2007 | Posted in: Web, Multimedia.
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