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

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Jan 11, 2016 5:07AM


"Vadim is likely to accept pull requests that make it better if you
have a sense of how."

+1. He accepted two of my PRs pretty readily.

While we're at it, can I get comments from the WebAIMers on this?
https://github.com/shower/shower/issues/220

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Chaals McCathie Nevile
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
>
>
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