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From: Daniel Sears
Date: Oct 5, 2004 2:00AM

I nether thort I'd say this but this is a grate website.

Nice easy and interesting. You did well

Well...thanks for a grate website like blue stream

Might buy some products from it don't know yet.



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From: robqemail [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 04 October 2004 22:39
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Welcome to the WebAIM Discussion List



I've been ask to examine a streaming video-like product for a 508
compliant website. I know that alternate content page would need to be
provided for this if it was used. Product description and website found
at bottom of email.

I am very interested in your thoughts -- especially because it has very
specific requirments to be able to run (such as downloading an active x
control, flash 6.0 required, Windows 98 or greater &amp; IE 5.0 or greater
and utilizes cookies to store whether the flash file has already played
the flash file).

This product I believe essentially plays in a flash file modified to
play above the browser (just a guess). The upshot is that the product
requires that an indivual be video taped in front of a blue screen, and
then streamed with the flash player to look like they are standing in
front of the web page - that's the &quot;oooh neato effect.&quot;

Knowing that it utilitzes such a specific grouping of software - how
would one best set this up to be used on a 508 compliant website and
what would be your top of the list reasons to not consider it at all (eg
- wouldn't streaming video a better way to go because it has captioning
available for the deaf and provided in a media format that may be much
more available to all web users?). Does the fact that the product
automatically starts upon page loading (I'm guessing it does
this) cause a problem with screen readers.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this,

Rob

Product found at http://www.rovion.com

Here's a bit from a website that uses it:

&quot;Rovion BlueStream is essentially a video player. It allows short video
clips of WAVY-TV personalities to be played automatically on your
computer desktop when you visit certain pages with the technology.Only
those people who download Rovion BlueStream will be able to see these
video clips.

Rovion BlueStream is installed as part of your web browser. The
application is a very small piece of software (about 61kb) that
downloads and installs within seconds. We have tested the software
extensively and have found it to be safe and reliable.

The software will place a &quot;cookie&quot; on your computer only to track how
often to play the clip on your computer. For example, if you visit our
homepage several times a day, you probably wouldn't want to see the clip
each time. The cookie contains no personal information about you.

The requirements are:

* Windows 98, 2000, XP
* Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater, AOL
* Flash 6.0 or Greater

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