Re: video conferencing and virtual whiteboards

Should this be inserted into the minutes from today's meeting?

Kathleen Anderson, Webmaster
Office of the State Comptroller
Hartford, Connecticut, 06106, USA
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Bingham" <hbingham@acm.org>
To: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: video conferencing and virtual whiteboards


> Future conferencing will increasingly depend on video connection
> and interactive drawing (virtual whiteboard) capabilities.
> 
> Accessibility aspects of video conferencing and virtual whiteboards
> include:
> 
> 1. Provide aural description of whatever is purely visual.
> 
> 2. Train participants to use the descriptive techniques
> as now used with descriptive video.
> 
> 3. Consider speech to text to transform words into text for
> alternative display. These include braille, enlarged text
> overlay layer under user control, or alternative display
> for visual.
> 
> 4. Integrate pre-existing textual sources with visual and
> generated text material for merged description.
> 
> Regards/Harvey Bingham
> 
> 

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