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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Mon, Oct 03 2011 2:51AM
Subject: Accessible screen-cast tool
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Good morning,

I am looking for a screen-cast tool (a tool that captures a video of the screen, along with audio) for wither Windows or OS X. Must work with screen-readers.

I find that a lot of the time I am asked to test something, but that explaining how it did not work, without showing a synchronized source of what is happening on screen + what the screen-reader is doing, can make it difficult for others to understand.

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From: Patterson, David K (ITD)
Date: Mon, Oct 03 2011 6:51AM
Subject: Re: Accessible screen-cast tool
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Hi,

We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.

From: Paul Adam
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2011 12:24PM
Subject: Re: Accessible screen-cast tool
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Great question! I know of many instances where it would be better to include
a screen recording of the audio and video of accessibility issues rather
than just taking screen shots and pasting code.

Good to know about Camtasia which I'm guessing addresses the windows side.
At a cost of $299 it may not be affordable for everyone.

Since you also mentioned OS X I wanted to research whether the new screen
recording features of QuickTime in Lion were accessible. It turns out they
are if you don't mind not being able to select a certain portion of the
screen and are fine just recording the entire area. You also have to install
soundflower, set it as the input and output in your sound settings, and then
check built-in output in the soundflower menu icon. Soundflower is required
to make quicktime record the internal output from VoiceOver.

In QuickTime Player create a new screen recording (command+control+n), set
the microphone as soundflower, start the recording button, click anywhere on
the screen with the mouse to start recording the entire screen, then you may
need to command+tab to the app you want to record to get it started when
running VoiceOver, run through the motions in VoiceOver showing the
accessibility issues or features, then stop the recording by pressing
command+control+esc.

There are some nice sharing options built in to QuickTime also, facebook,
youtube, email.

Sounds like a lot of work and took some trial and error but hey it's free
and accessible. Works for me!

Good luck!

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Patterson, David K (ITD) <
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> Hi,
>
> We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.
>
>

From: Paul Adam
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2011 12:30PM
Subject: Re: Accessible screen-cast tool
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One other thought I just had, the VO output would also be accessible to deaf
users if you have the Caption Panel visible during the screen recording.
Could be a quick and easy way to show someone who's deaf the benefits of
using WAI-ARIA. Guess this could also work using Camtasia and NVDA's
visible output window.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Paul Adam < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Great question! I know of many instances where it would be better to
> include a screen recording of the audio and video of accessibility issues
> rather than just taking screen shots and pasting code.
>
> Good to know about Camtasia which I'm guessing addresses the windows side.
> At a cost of $299 it may not be affordable for everyone.
>
> Since you also mentioned OS X I wanted to research whether the new screen
> recording features of QuickTime in Lion were accessible. It turns out they
> are if you don't mind not being able to select a certain portion of the
> screen and are fine just recording the entire area. You also have to install
> soundflower, set it as the input and output in your sound settings, and then
> check built-in output in the soundflower menu icon. Soundflower is required
> to make quicktime record the internal output from VoiceOver.
>
> In QuickTime Player create a new screen recording (command+control+n), set
> the microphone as soundflower, start the recording button, click anywhere on
> the screen with the mouse to start recording the entire screen, then you may
> need to command+tab to the app you want to record to get it started when
> running VoiceOver, run through the motions in VoiceOver showing the
> accessibility issues or features, then stop the recording by pressing
> command+control+esc.
>
> There are some nice sharing options built in to QuickTime also, facebook,
> youtube, email.
>
> Sounds like a lot of work and took some trial and error but hey it's free
> and accessible. Works for me!
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Patterson, David K (ITD) <
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.
>>
>>

From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2011 12:42PM
Subject: Re: Accessible screen-cast tool
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Actually Screen Recorder Gold works perfectly for this. I used this to
create a video for the W4A 2011 Conference using the built-in hotkeys to
start and stop recording. Plus it's only $30.
http://www.capture-screen.com/

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From: "Paul Adam" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible screen-cast tool


> Great question! I know of many instances where it would be better to
> include
> a screen recording of the audio and video of accessibility issues rather
> than just taking screen shots and pasting code.
>
> Good to know about Camtasia which I'm guessing addresses the windows side.
> At a cost of $299 it may not be affordable for everyone.
>
> Since you also mentioned OS X I wanted to research whether the new screen
> recording features of QuickTime in Lion were accessible. It turns out they
> are if you don't mind not being able to select a certain portion of the
> screen and are fine just recording the entire area. You also have to
> install
> soundflower, set it as the input and output in your sound settings, and
> then
> check built-in output in the soundflower menu icon. Soundflower is
> required
> to make quicktime record the internal output from VoiceOver.
>
> In QuickTime Player create a new screen recording (command+control+n), set
> the microphone as soundflower, start the recording button, click anywhere
> on
> the screen with the mouse to start recording the entire screen, then you
> may
> need to command+tab to the app you want to record to get it started when
> running VoiceOver, run through the motions in VoiceOver showing the
> accessibility issues or features, then stop the recording by pressing
> command+control+esc.
>
> There are some nice sharing options built in to QuickTime also, facebook,
> youtube, email.
>
> Sounds like a lot of work and took some trial and error but hey it's free
> and accessible. Works for me!
>
> Good luck!
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Patterson, David K (ITD) <
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.
>>
>>