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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 14, 2012 3:46PM

Good afternoon, yea wise people

I was wondering if there was an inexpensive (software or inexpensive
web cam) way to create short (2 or 3 min) videos of particular
accessibility problems.
I think it might be more effective to do something like that than to
write up long descriptions of missing labels, inaccessible
auto-completion etc.
This might work at least if there is one specific page that causes
issues,and would of course be accompanied by suggestions on how to do
this right.
Those of you who have created YouTube videos etc (thanks for that btw,
some of those are fantastic, Greg from NC State, the Nomensa people,
Duff and the HTML5 guys, Webaim staff, I am sure I am forgetting some
of you but these YouTube videos are a fantastic resource), is it
possible to produce a low budget one that is good enough to get the
point across quickly and inexpensively? If so, what hardware/software
would be good for this?
As for the set up, I'd use Jaws, possibly with Magic, to highlight
what appears on screen along with the what is read by the screen
reader.
Ideally I'd be able to use some sort of screen capture software, so I
could record this from my computer only, but I suspect that it may be
impossible to record capture of the screen with the highlighted focus
along with speech, though it would be the best solution.
What about cameras or web cams, I can get sighted assistance, but it
seems to be rather cumbersome to do.
What approach has worked best for you, and is this even a feasible
idea to begin with?
(I think it is only feasable if no more than an hour or two would be
spent on recording and prepping the file, anything more than that, I
start spending too much time on worrying about multi media format
rather than highlighting the accessibility issue itself).

Thanks
-Birkir