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From: Mark Rew
Date: Aug 15, 2001 5:24AM

Michael,
Can you take a look at a text captioned bideo we did. We use MAGPIE and
created a SMIL file that runs under Real Player. You will need to have
captioning enabled. This setting is in View preferences under
accessibility. Please tell me how well we did, and what we can do to
improve our captioning. See
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/cfo/media/darrell_waltrip.smil
thanks
Mark Rew
National Weather Service
Office of the Chief Information Officer
301-713-0262 x131
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Goddard" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: Question about Screen Readers.

> I am curious as to exactly what do the screen readers "read and speak". I
> am deaf so I cannot "first-hand" experiment with something like this.
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> I have downloaded the Lynx browser to see what might a screen reader "read
> and say" is this a reliable thing? Do the screen readers just speak the
> text or do the screen readers actually speak the HTML coding as well?
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> I am trying to migrate more into the accessibility field for web design
and
> development since I believe it is going to explode in the near future.
> Currently, I have over 5 years experience working in the field of web
> development (strictly HTML coding) have learned many more skills
including,
> graphics, PHP, MySQL programming.
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> Anyone know of some online training for this? I know that WebAIM has
> courses but I cannot afford something like that. I am hoping there might
be
> free courses anywhere?
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> Thank you,
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> Michael
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