Eleanor,
I've had a look at the website. There are two versions of the
presentation. The first is a PDF with a text transcript included, the
second is the full screen PDF you mentioned. If you download the first
you can read it in Adobe Reader with a screen reader. If you don't like
PDF, you can open the PDF and save the text out of it from the file menu
and read it in a word processor or text editor.
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 24 November 2009 20:49
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
Fair enough Steve but I was a bit taken aback to find it was a
presentation that was pretty meaningless to me as a visually impaired
person.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:42 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
Eleanor,
I haven't downloaded the presentation myself, so I wasn't aware of
this.
His CSUN talk was about a wide variety of disabled people who've found
Second Life worthwhile; I assumed what was on his website would have
been a recording of the Techshare talk rather than just the visual
information.
Steve
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Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 24 November 2009 19:49
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
I downloaded the presentation out of interest but I was appauled as it
meant very little to me as a visually impaired screen reader. I must
have downloaded thw wrong thing!!! The presentation in full screen
pdf format.
Eleanor
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:15 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
Probably Kel Smith of Anikto; his presentation at CSUN the best thing
there, and it looks like he's updated it to take the virtual guidedog
project into account. His Techshare presentation is available from
download from http://bit.ly/rnib09.
Steve
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Of Adrian Higginbotham
Sent: 24 November 2009 15:40
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
There was something at techshare this year about a virtual guidedog
on secondlife that could act as your online guide basicly an
assistant to give you contextual information about your surroundings.
As damon
says
all very unrewarding but possibly important as more and more service
are
experimenting with virtual worlds by holding events or launches of
reports and services in world.
Adrian Higginbotham
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Of Damon Rose
Sent: 24 November 2009 14:52
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
Way too visual I think. About as interesting as trying to paint if
you can't see. Read an article this week about how Second Life is on
the wain.
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Sent: 23 November 2009 08:46
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
At CSUN 2009 I went to a demonstration of using Second Life with a
screen reader. It was messy, but the project was in its early stages.
It
was run on Macs and used a screen reader called Max Voice Plus
written by Charles Mountain
(charles.mountain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) which allows you to issue
command line instructions to get your avatar to perform actions, for
instance the command "/11 door" would open a
door.
At the time a beta of Max Voice Plus was available from
http://www.virtualguidedog.org/tools/. I haven't followed this up, so
can tell you no more I'm afraid.
Steve
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Of Peter Holdstock
Sent: 22 November 2009 17:35
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
I tried using it with JAWS a year ago and it isn't accessible in the
slightest. I did find a second life client which made it partly
accessible but found that it was quite complicated and wasn't
particularly interesting, entertaining or useful. In other words a
waste
of time. Sorry as can't remember what the client was called.
Peter
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From: "Kevin Morris" <drewdog2060@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:50 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFE
I've just signed up for a free account with Second Life and would be
interested to know of any access technology users who are using the
site.
In particular any tips on using it would Jaws would be appreciated.
I'm using Jaws 10 and Windows Vista Home Premiunm.
Thanks,
Kevin
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