Ang: Re: [oats-sig] Literacy & "easy to use" authoring tools

mats,

what excellent news!

I'd also be interested to hear of smaller developer led projects

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet

On 19 Feb 2008, at 00:39, mats.lundalv at vgregion.se wrote:

Hi Jonathan and all,

I was a little puzzled at first about what you meant with "authoring  
tools". Looked for the "unpleasant" thread on the senit list that you  
referred to, but only found something about powerpoint and DVD  
authoring for teachers. That wasn't it, was it?

After looking at your references I gather that you are rather looking  
for authoring tools for end users - children and users with learning  
difficulties, right?

I'm afraid I haven't got much to add to your references at this  
point. The ccf email tool your asking about is probably the WWAAC  
email prototype, which was unfortunately not OS, and which hasn't  
either yet made it to the market as a commercial product - if it ever  
will.

What we would really need for the free software environments is an on- 
screen keyboard/selection set tool and editor for ccf based symbol  
supported text communication and authoring.

The good news is that we will probably be working with this - as one  
of many tasks - in the upcoming European-international AEGIS project  
- with Sun as a leading partner. Negotiations are just about to be  
finalised. Planned start in September. Among the targets are both a  
dedicated cross-platform ccf based AAC application, and ccf based  
symbol supported authoring in OpenOffice.org.

Cheers,
Mats

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Ärende: Re: [oats-sig] Literacy & "easy to use" authoring tools

Steve,

I don't mean to be obscure at all, but the fact it seems there isn't
already such a list is somewhat indicative.
apologies I don't mean to sound rude, or even blunt, but I do have
problems expressing myself, and the issue is significant.

perhaps we could start by collating a list of Open Source authoring
tools that we think are easy to use?
unfortunately I'm not able to contribute any, because I can't
immediately think of any...

mats was the ccf email application source ever published?

my attempt to define one is here:
http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2/authoringTool.html

the inkscape tracker for a child friendly version is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170488

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet

On 18 Feb 2008, at 10:56, Steve Lee wrote:

I'm just trying to understand what you are after.
Do you mean reading support programs that help people with learning
difficulties write (my guess)? Or HTML authoring programs (say). Or
something else.

Steve

On 18/02/2008, "~:'' ありがとうございました。"
<j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
 > Steve,
 >
 > well I've been lobbying around this issue for a while.
 >
 > What have you got?
 >
 > the issue being that afaik there just isn't much about.
 >
 > most popular applications quickly develop feature creep.
 > rather than being finely honed.
 >
 > it's rather invidious to provide examples, but we could go there, if
 > necessary
 >
 > cheers
 >
 > Jonathan Chetwynd
 > Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
 >
 >
 >
 > On 18 Feb 2008, at 10:28, Steve Lee wrote:
 >
 > Hi Jonathan, did you have any specific requirements? Authoring what
 > exactly?
 >
 > Steve
 >
 > On 18/02/2008, "~:'' ありがとうございました。"
 > <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
 >> "easy to use" authoring tools
 >>
 >> there's currently a rather unpleasant thread running on the senit
 >> list around authoring tools.
 >>
 >> Does Oats have a list of easy to use authoring tools?
 >>
 >> regards
 >>
 >> Jonathan Chetwynd
 >> Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >
 >
 > --
 > Steve Lee
 > --
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 > www.fullmeasure.co.uk
 >
 >
 >

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