[oats-sig] Screencast and 'Free our Symbols'

Mats,

Jonathan, I can clearly see why you want the groups. what I don't
quite get is what you *do* with the items you find in the search.

I'm also interested in finding good OSS webcaste software, preferably
using open formats.

Steve

2008/7/10 Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>:
> Mats,
> excellent feedback, the reality is the project is 'proof of concept' to
> encourage and help understanding of the issues.
> particularly amongst browser and specification developers.
> Also to encourage Bliss and other symbol copyright holders to consider
> benefits of publishing
> Taking it forward requires European partners, and there has already been
> significant interest.
> perhaps you'd consider this?
> in the short term it is possible that separate communities using limited
> sets of symbols will communicate independent of each other.
> language is one very obvious barrier, symbols sets another.
> perhaps using applications with parts that are held in common.
> one of the objectives of the project is to test the benefits of grouping
> symbols in categories and providing a group symbol.
> as our users are known to have difficulties generalising and transferring
> knowledge.
> The methodology of the web makes the need for these topic symbols far more
> apparent, eg home
> whereas a book never had such a thing as a 'home' iirc.
> naturally I would very much welcome your support in respect of any aspect of
> development
> regards
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/
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> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
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> On 9 Jul 2008, at 23:53, Mats Lundälv wrote:
>
> Great job Jonathan!
>
> I had some problems viewing your demo due to my poor and slow mobile
> connection. But as far as I could see your demo was nice and clear, but I
> suppose many visitors may need some additional short introduction to
> understand what you're aiming at.
>
> About your overall approach: It is a bit unclear to me how you envisage that
> these features will be employed by the target users. From my experience many
> of the potential target users would (hopefully) be used to some kind of AAC
> to help them communicate - a familiar symbol vocabulary, organised in a
> special way. They will have invested substantial time and effort to master
> that vocabulary and the structure it is organised in. For these users it
> will be very essential to be able to apply those same AAC resources and
> skills also on your chat forum etc. - and not be faced with a totally new
> environment. How do you envisage this? The symbol resources you and
> potentially other people will offer within your framework could be a very
> interesting resource to explore and learn to use for these users, but they
> would typically want that as a complement to their existing AAC tools - not
> instead of. This is what we recently found - confirming our old experiences
> - in the NavigAbile project, where the option to re-map their existing
> personal AAC resoures reasonably well on the web was rated very high and
> even a necessary precondition for their motivation to participate.
>
> Do you plan to supply speech support as well? We have found that very
> essential as well, in addition to the graphical symbol and text modalities.
> Cheers,
> Mats
>
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> Screencast and 'Free our Symbols'
> anyone know of a decent foss screencast application with audio for os x?
> http://www.openicon.org now has a screencast please send me your comments.
> The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could
> improve the way public information is communicated.
> You can read my entry 'Free our Symbols' here:
> http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/write-it.html
> regards
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> Jonathan Chetwynd
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> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/
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> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
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Steve Lee
Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility
fullmeasure.co.uk