RE: Story Boards
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:38:23 -0400
Hi Marvin,
Drawing tools have taken a back seat in the development priorities at the
commercial AT companies. We had a contractor (Will Pearson) working on a
audio version of Visio that used 3D sound for us at FS a bunch of years ago.
When I moved on, FS shit canned Will and killed the project.
One way to story board a project would be to make your "slides" using html
itself. The pages you make will not be fully functional but, rather,
describe the contents of the page when it is finally completed. This will
provide a set of pages that your instructor can view in any order that he
prefers and will contain all of the information you need to use to develop
the stories for your ultimate project.
Another approach would be to do it using the MS Word Outline mode
(View/Outline in Word 2003, I haven't used it in 2007 yet so I can't tell
you how to get it in that version). The Word outliner creates kind of a
tree view of information which can be up to 12 (I think) levels deep. The
person reading the document can set the depth she wants to view so, for
instance, they can read the Heading 1 information to get a "big picture"
overview of the information and, using the outliner button bar, or a number
of different useful keystrokes, they can drill down further. This creates a
hierarchical view of your story board which can be corrected to jump from
topic to topic under different headings by using the Word hyperlink feature
(I know this works with JAWS but haven't tried it with Window-Eyes or System
Access).
Another approach would be to use PowerPoint slides in a logical, albeit
hierarchical manner. It has been a long time since I did anything
interesting with PowerPoint but, if I remember correctly, you can include
hyperlinks that will let the reader jump from one slide to another in a less
sequential order. I find it easiest to create PowerPoint slides using the
MS Word outliner - items at level 1 will translate to PP slide titles and
those at level 2 or higher become PP bullets. Once you have your outline
done in Word, you can go to File/Send To/PowerPoint and it will create your
PP slides for you and open PP to the top slide. From there, you can edit
the slides to add things like hyperlinks and such to spiff up your
presentation. I know that editing PP slides can be done pretty well with
JAWS as I've done it myself but I have been told that it works pretty nicely
with Window-Eyes but have no hands on experience with it so can't speak to
its usability.
I'm sure there are other tools that a blink can use to accomplish such a
task but I haven't tried any and cannot remember what other people have told
me over the years as my caffeine levels haven't reached the point where I
can function at full capacity.
If your instructor doesn't like any of the above accessible solutions, I
recommend you get hold of a Braille embosser or Perkins Brailler and make a
whole lot of pages in Braille. Do not add any printed information and turn
in the project using only Braille and tactile graphics (ViewPlus has a nice
program for doing this). If the instructor complains, tell him that it was
the only accessible solution he hadn't rejected yet and that you will deal
with the Office of the Dean of Students to try to help you negotiate a
solution that will work for you and the instructor.
If your instructor does not allow you to use a technique that is accessible
typically colleges have an office of disability affairs and, if not, they
definitely have a Dean of Students. People in these departments are usually
quite helpful and aware of ADA and, if your college gets Federal money (most
do), 508 as well. No one wants a discrimination lawsuit and, if it comes to
a point where you and your instructor reach a point at which negotiation no
longer provides either of you with any satisfaction, your lawyer's office is
the next stop.
You can write to me privately or call me on Skype if you want to discuss
this further.
Enjoy,
cdh
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of marvin hunkin
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:00 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Story Boards
Hi.
doing a project for my website development course.
now, part of the requirements says that i need to create a story board to
represent what content is to be displayed on each page.
Now sighted students, would draw navigation and story board diagrams.
now, had to do this in word tables and tried html.
but my lecturer is still not happy with what i have come up with.
now, just wondering, is there any software, that might be able to represent
the story boards for the four websites that i am developing for this
semester.
any tips, tricks, or any other similar experiences.
let me know, if anyone been in the same position.
unfortunately the guy who did start to develop an accessible text to speech
drawing software, got his phd, and did not complete the project and still in
limbo.
he got to the third user tests, and then nicked off.
he did this at Burkely University in Callifornia and the product was to be
called Intercommunication Draw 2.
okay, can you help out or give suggestions or how to resolve these problems?
cheers Marvin.
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