Re: refresh braille video

Roger,

Thanks for sharing this video.  I have forwarded the link to a large number of IA's, designers, and developers within the Library on Monday. Since then I have received many positive responses. So often people think accessibility is someone else's problem. This video helps our team understand why it's so important to care so much about accessibility.

Laura



Laura Keen
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress
202.707.4722

>>> "Roger Hudson" <rhudson@usability.com.au> 5/17/2009 4:25 PM >>>

Hi
 
I am due to give a couple of workshops on accessibility and wanted to show those attending a refreshable Braille device. While there are many videos showing screen readers in use, I noticed there are very few showing Braille machines.
 
So Bruce Maguire kindly agreed to help out and I have made a 6 minute video of him describing how and why he uses a screen reader with refreshable Braille to access the web and he demonstrates in real time (apart from the time taken for search results to be found) how he finds a book on Amazon.
 
The video along with a transcript is on my blog at http://www.dingoaccess.com/accessibility/refreshable-braille-and-the-web/ 
 
Please feel free to use it if you think it will be helpful in spreading the word.
 
Roger
 
Roger Hudson
Web Usability
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Email: rhudson@usability.com.au
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