Re: video conferencing and virtual whiteboards

This was one of the topics discussed for developing techniques (we have some
ideas sketched out) by the authoring tools group at our meeting on wednesday
/ thursday - shared whiteboards are clearly authoring tools.

regards

Charles

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Kathleen Anderson wrote:

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

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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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