[Athen] Accessible Office Export Plug-In That's NOT UIUC

[Terry Thompson]

Stacy, 

I think that was my presentation you saw in Boulder - the Flash/captions
problem you're describing is a Camtasia problem. If you use Camtasia 4 (the
new version) to create a narrated PowerPoint, Camtasia provides a very
easy-to-use interface for addding captions. This is an awesome feature, and
if you export to any movie type other than Flash, you get a nice
presentation that includes open captions. However, if you export to Flash,
the captions cover up the video and are unreadable. 

You can see examples of both the Flash version and Quicktime version here: 
http://staff.washington.edu/tft/talks/powerpoint/index.html

(jump down to Technique #4 - sorry, these are short videos but they aren't
streaming so they may take some time to download) 

Terry

Terry Thompson
Technology Specialist, DO-IT
University of Washington
tft at u.washington.edu
206/221-4168 
http://www.washington.edu/doit




> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org 

> [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Stacy L. Smith

> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 6:35 AM

> To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network; 

> Berkowitz, Daniel J

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessible Office Export Plug-In That's NOT UIUC

> 

> I've been using LecShare and love it.  (www.lecshare.com)

> 

> Doesn't Flash put the captions over the slide itself?  (In 

> other words, your captioning may be covering part of the text 

> of the slide.)  There was a presentation on PPT at the Higher 

> Ground Conference....should be on your CD if you purchased one.

> 

> Stacy

> 

> Quoting "Berkowitz, Daniel J" <djbrky at bu.edu>:

> 

> > I'll echo Sean. I saw a demo of LecShare at Accessing Higher Ground 

> > and picked up a copy on the spot. Given the price it was 

> worth getting 

> > a copy to try out. I have used it to create accessible version of 

> > PPT's for many presentations - including this one:

> > http://www.colorado.edu/atconference/etext_production.htm

> > <http://www.colorado.edu/atconference/etext_production.htm>

> >

> > It's a good basic program that does what it promises.

> >

> >

> >

> >

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> > ________________________________

> >

> > From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org on behalf of Sean Keegan

> > Sent: Thu 2/8/2007 12:46 PM

> > To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

> > Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessible Office Export Plug-In 

> That's NOT UIUC

> >

> >

> > Hi Kevin,

> >

> > You may want to check out LecShare.  Similar in concept 

> (different in 

> > technical functionality), LecShare can take a PPT file and 

> convert it 

> > to several different accessible formats.  Their higher end product 

> > LecShare Pro can also support the addition of voice media to slides 

> > (and do some basic automated captioning).  Site is:

> > http://www.lecshare.com

> >

> > Take a look at the trial version - it is fully functioning and just 

> > embeds a LecShare watermark on each exported format so that 

> you do not 

> > use the trial version for prime time.  Works for Macs and 

> PCs, so that 

> > is a nice feature.  Currently it only works with PowerPoint 

> files, so 

> > if you are looking for Word or Excel support, then it is the Office 

> > Export Wizard (aka Accessible Web Publishing Wizard).

> >

> > I have also had a number of faculty approach me regarding 

> the use of 

> > Camtasia to deliver PPT content (obviously a more expensive 

> solution).  

> > The result is just a Flash video of the presentation with a 

> voice-over 

> > narration (this is somewhat similar to one of the exports 

> of LecShare 

> > Pro also does).  The current version of Camtasia also 

> provides a tool 

> > for captioning the presentation.  It does appear to have many 

> > customization options, but I am looking into this a bit more.  

> > Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but it is something 

> > that more faculty appear to be doing.

> >

> > Take care,

> > Sean

> >

> >

> > ________________________________

> >

> > From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]

> > On Behalf Of Sesock, Kevin A

> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:10 AM

> > To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

> > Subject: [Athen] Accessible Office Export Plug-In That's NOT UIUC

> >

> >

> > There are a few who have been witness to my complaints about the 

> > University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Office Export Wizard 

> > plug-in. I'm not going to get into that now (if anyone is 

> interested, 

> > mail me for a sample tirade off-list), but I do need a good 

> > alternative to convert Powerpoint and other Office documents to an 

> > accessible HTML alternative.

> >

> > Up until 1.06, the Illinois tool was free and didn't nag or 

> annoy, and 

> > if anyone has that version, that would be helpful (I have lost my 

> > copy), otherwise, anyone have other recommendations?

> >

> > Kevin A. Sesock, A+, Net+, CNA, MCSA

> > Assistive Technology Specialist

> > Student Disability Services

> > Division of Student Affairs

> > Oklahoma State University

> >

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> >

> > "Hail to the speaker, hail to the knower; joy to he who has 

> > understood, delight to they who have listened." - Odin

> >

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> 

> Stacy Smith

> Adaptive Technology Specialist

> Disability Support Services

> 202 Holton Hall

> Kansas State University

> Manhattan, KS  66506

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> Email:  stacylee at ksu.edu

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