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Re: Web-native presentations (was: Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation)

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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Jan 11, 2016 2:15AM

On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:05:02 +0300, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Those are pretty old. Personally I use Shower: http://shwr.me/ but
> Reveal is also supposed to be good. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

I also use shower. It's still less than perfect last I checked, about 6
months ago. Lots of stuff seemed to get lost big time - but it had been
improved, and Vadim is likely to accept pull requests that make it better
if you have a sense of how.

cheers

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kroon, Kurtis@FTB
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> For web-native presentations that (since they use HTML / CSS / JS) are
>> easier to make accessible, does anyone use S5[1] or HTML Slidy[2]?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Kurtis Kroon
>> CA:GO:FTB:ASD:CSB:WSS:WUXU:AssocISA
>> 916-845-5603
>>
>> Reference:
>> [1]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>> [2]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chagnon | PubCom.com [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 13:38
>> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation
>>
>> Many reasons why PDFs are needed.
>>
>> Governments, corporations, and institutionals generally need a copy of
>> everything they create that can be easily archived and established as a
>> snapshot; that is, this was the document's state at this particular
>> point in time.
>> Often it must be secured or locked from further edits or changes.
>> And it must be stored someplace where they have total control of the
>> information, such as on their own servers, not Google's.
>>
>> HTML versions are often spread across several webpages making it
>> difficult to refer to "one" document. Google Docs are on Google's
>> servers.
>>
>> Other considerations:
>> One file that can be attached to an email, burned to a flash drive, and
>> distributed.
>> Once they are downloaded to the device, PDFs don't require an active
>> internet connection or fast bandwidth.
>>
>> —Bevi Chagnon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
>> Behalf Of Lucy Greco
>> Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 3:55 PM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation
>>
>> hello:"
>> sorry i need to chime in here why save as a pdf any way why not save
>> the docs or slides presentation to html google does a good job of
>> making
>> that accessable. what reason is there for a pdf of some thing that was
>> born on the web.
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration University of
>> California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>>
>>
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