[vicsireland] Making the RTÉ Player accessible
- From: Mark Magennis <mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
- To: Vics Mailing List <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:06:16 +0100
Dear all,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, CFIT and RTÉ are supporting a student to do a
project making the RTÉ Player accessible with JAWS. The student is Olivia
Kennedy, a Digital Media Design student from the University of Limerick. Olivia
is now a member of the VICS email list and will be posting a message soon
asking for your help in finding out what the problems are with the Player.
Please don't give your views yet because Olivia will actually be working on a
new version of the RTÉ Player which is significantly different from the current
one. She will want some volunteers to help her investigate the accessibility of
this new Player and assess the success of whatever changes she makes to it. The
outcome will be that the standard Player should be accessible. We are not
talking about creating a separate accessible version for blind people. This is
mainstreaming.
I trust you'll all welcome Olivia and help her if you can. This is valuable
work she's doing and we're pleased that she's decided to bring her commitment
and talent to bear on this.
All the best,
Mark
Dr. Mark Magennis
Director of the Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)
NCBI (National Council for the Blind of Ireland)
Whitworth Road, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 882 1956
Skype: markncbi
Web: www.cfit.ie
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