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----- Original Message ----- From: "Griffiths, Steve" <Steve.Griffiths@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Higginbotham Sent: 24 November 2009 15:40 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 Manager, leading edge research. DD: 02476797333 E: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx W: www.Becta.org.uk A: Becta, Millburnhill Road, Science park, Coventry CV4 7JJ. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 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. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Griffiths, Steve Sent: 23 November 2009 08:46 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Holdstock Sent: 22 November 2009 17:35 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Morris" <drewdog2060@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:50 PM To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [access-uk] ACCESSIBILITY OF SECOND LIFEI'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 thesite.In particular any tips on using it would Jaws would be appreciated. I'm using Jaws 10 and Windows Vista Home Premiunm. 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