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From: Paul Adam
Date: Oct 5, 2011 12:30PM

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 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 REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We use Camtasia Studio from TechSmith.
>>
>>