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Re: Is there an inexpensive and effective way to make video demonstrations of accessibility issues?

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From: Giovanni Duarte
Date: May 14, 2012 5:51PM

Hi Birkir,
I personally use Camtasia or Screencast-o-matic
(http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ ) . I am not sure how accessible those
are but screen-o-matic has the ability to record your webcam as well. It has
many options and it is free. It is also Java based. I have done screen casts
for over 5 years and these two tools are the best so far. If screen o matic
is not fully accessible, I know the developer is a great guy who could build
some functionality to make it more accessible.


Thanks
Giovanni


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Subject: [WebAIM] Is there an inexpensive and effective way to make video
demonstrations of accessibility issues?

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
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