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From: Paul Adam
Date: Oct 5, 2011 12:24PM

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 REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.
>
>