I will elaborate.
The RTÉ XL Player, imperfect though it is, was developed out of research
between CFIT and RTÉ by a student doing her Ph.D., Olivia Kennedy, last
year. It is still more accessible than the main RTÉ Player site. the XL
Player is a good 'first start', and is now the property of RTÉ.
Apparently, they - their Web engineers - also have the knowledge and
coding that Olivia put into it. Perhaps someone could offer to take it up
again with RTÉ, with a view to developing and enhancing it further.
Nowadays, though, because of the prevalence of flash coding and content,
it isn't as easy as it was before Flash began to be preferred by the
sighted populace. WebbIE faces similar issues on an ongoing basis with the
iPlayer.
. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 2:29 AM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Webbie and RTE
I think you misunderstand me Flor. Webbie makes it very easy to find and
navagate the BBC. I thought maybe someone in Ireland might be able to do
something similar with RTE,
-----Original message-----
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: 03/07/2012, 2:07 am
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Webbie and RTE
Eleanor,
So far as RTé is concerned, we still have the RTÉ XL Player:
www.rte.ie/playerxl
.
WebbIE is a suite of programs, not just one TV/Radio player - which is
partly devoted to BBC content. When i used the player portion of WebbIE
regularly, i found that the BBC frequently broke the player's bbc
content and features when they just minor tweaked their own player
and/or features on the BBC iPlayer site. Alasdair (from what I know) has
(or had) a teaching or research post at the university of manchester,
UMIST, and Webbie was/is a spare-time, non-paid activity of his. Many
within or outside of the UK also: use WebbIE for catching podcasts;
listening to non-BBC radio stations in the UK and internationally;
converting PDF's with its PDF to text converter; use the WebbIE browser
instead of Internet Explorer or Firefox; or use its clock and calendar
features. It's free to download at
www.webbie.org.uk
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:51 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Wevbbie and RTE
Hi All
Maybe our Chief Paul J Traynor can take on board what I have to say,
though I acknowledge that there are probably great IT people on this
list also. In the UK Alastair King wrote the programme Webbie for blind
and partially sighted people to access the BBC. I wonder if we have
someone in Ireland who would be capable of doing same for RTE programmes
and Channels. Well what do you say guys? I am sure any potential
person or persons culd liease with Alastair to find out how exactly this
is done. I think it is brilliant for UK so let's get something for
Ireland folks.
Eleanor