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Create accessible XHTML slide shows with ease, works across browsers and is operated like PowerPoint.
An extension of the W3C Slidy system for creating web-based, standards-compliant slide shows. Speechy adds the ability to embed audio (speech or music) or video along with the slides, and to advance the slides in sync with the audio or video.
Quoted from http://www.w3.org/:
World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Draft Published
2008-08-06: The Protocols and Formats Working Group published an updated Working Draft of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. WAI-ARIA is introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview and the WAI-ARIA FAQ. Read the updated WAI-ARIA Specification announcement that requests feedback on host language embedding, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)
W3C
UBIQUITY: An experiment in connecting the web with language.
This looks interesting. One more useful item to add to Firefox!
Take a look:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Once again the happy group came together for a High Tech and Low Humor lunch at the Blue Moon Cafe.
Missed were Laura Neil and Bob Smith who both had the good sense to be absent.
Jim Van Evera, of FirstLook Photo in Hagerstown, MD did attend and discussed photography with Jeff Rosen, another new face.
Jeff Rosen discussed the joys of "Urban Trapping and Varmint Control". We also discussed were the relative merits of the "have a heart trap" vs the M1 rifle.
David created an example Quick Response Code, QR Code, which he had the unlucky attendees to hold for photographs.
David Hark believes that the QR Codes are the "next big thing" and has collected resources on his page on dhark.com; QR Codes.
Jim discussed one the first telephone users; Mark Twain.
"Twain was both proud of, and flummoxed by, his telephone, one of the very first installed in a private home."
The Mark Twain House
Why isit still so hard to get plain old POTS?
Dan Tokar brought vol. 1 of Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation
of the Arabian Nights. Dan maintains that this is really an example of early "hyper linking" in that the stories are all interrelated and "linked" together. Has this ever been done?
Dan also mentioned the "printers proof" resemblance to David's QRs
Jim Van Evera managed to record a video showcasing his Hollywood like talents. Jim's next stop is U-Tube!
View the Blue Moon Movie - Tech Bytes Aug 2008 on dhark.com
Download and enjoy (?) this 9.1 meg movie file. (47 min @ 28.8)
For information on September's Lunch, contact David at dhark@fred.net .
July Tech Lunch a Great Byte! |
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A fine meal and great conversation was enjoyed at the Blue Moon Cafe on July 29th in Shepherdstown, WV.
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Starting things off with "Show and Tell", Dan Tokar ,had the equivalent value of one US Dollar in Gold, Silver, Tin and Copper. I guess the amount of gasoline would be 32 ounces with gas at $4.00/gal. Good thing he just brought metals. |
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| Bob Smith had just visited the Post Office with new mice for his collection. |
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Bob had a Cool Ring-Style Fingertip USB Optical Mouse:from DealExtreme he ordered . for only $7.88. |
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| Laura Neal was impressed but tried not to show it!. |
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First step in Borg assimilation? 7 of 9 would love this! |
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Dan Tokar figured out how the mouse was to be used right away.
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David Hark finally figured out how it worked in the record time of 6 hours ,with lots of help.
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| The group had a great time and most look forward to another get together again in August; the date to be arranged. | |
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/
The birth of the Internet is the subject of this utterly engaging and well-thought out special report created by the National Science Foundation. After a brief introduction, visitors can browse through a multimedia site that includes video clips of early pioneers talking about their work on this endeavor, along with maps of Internet growth from the 1960s to the 1990s and documents such as the Lax Report. Interestingly enough the Lax Report, issued in 1982, was influential in the creation of the National Science Foundation's supercomputing centers. The materials are divided up by decade (1960s through the 2000s) and visitors can click on each section to learn about the advances and challenges faced by persons working in this field. Along the way, a small section in the bottom right-hand corner of the site keeps a running total of the baud rate and the Internet users in each decade. Of course, visitors will not want to miss the section dedicated to Mosaic, which was the browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s.
From The Scout Report -- August 15, 2008
