it only matters if you care » accessible portable apps http://accessbrit.wordpress.com comment on Web accessibility, other access matters and stuff that gets mygoat Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:56:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/8b87d2ebd90971f9cd0ffff9cd84e31c?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png it only matters if you care » accessible portable apps http://accessbrit.wordpress.com Subtitle films, how easy can it get!? http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/subtitle-films-how-easy-can-it-get/ http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/subtitle-films-how-easy-can-it-get/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:01:52 +0000 accessbrit http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/subtitle-films-how-easy-can-it-get/ ]]>

Thanks to Seb Schmoller for alerting me to the existence of this amazing tool in This post

dotsub.com is a free to access, nothing to download web based tool which lets you make any film available in any language just by adding your own subtitles to it. Technology really doesn’t get much simpler or more powerful than this!

]]> http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/subtitle-films-how-easy-can-it-get/feed/ 0 accessbrit I’m off to ICC the international computer camp for blind students http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/im-off-to-icc-the-international-computer-for-blind-students/ http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/im-off-to-icc-the-international-computer-for-blind-students/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:34:33 +0000 accessbrit http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/im-off-to-icc-the-international-computer-for-blind-students/ ]]>

On Sunday I’m off to Finland to lead a couple of workshops in this years ICC camp this is an annual event which shifts around Europe attracting up to 300 visually impaired students from over 30 countries across Two weeks. The first week for 14 to 17 year olds, the second week for 18 to 21s. I’m going along as a member of staff (for the first time) in week one to lead sessions on accessible portable applications, and on running Blogs, not something I know all that much about but hey I’ll be learning too. If you fancy keeping up with the camp then workshop attendees and I will be running a camp Blog at www.ICCcamp.wordpress.com
please comment a plenty so that we all know people are reading.

]]> http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/im-off-to-icc-the-international-computer-for-blind-students/feed/ 2 accessbrit Launchy open virtually anything just by typing its name http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/launchy-open-virtually-anything-just-by-typing-its-name/ http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/launchy-open-virtually-anything-just-by-typing-its-name/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 14:04:44 +0000 accessbrit http://accessbrit.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/launchy-open-virtually-anything-just-by-typing-its-name/ ]]>

Thanks to Christian Heilmannfor blogging about Launchy, the open source keystroke launcher for Windowswhich allows you to open pretty much anything just by typing its name, including applications, files and folders, web searches or just about anything else you can think of. perform the default keystroke of alt+space type what you want and press enter. if you pause typing a list of suggestions (which is visually there on the right the whole time) takes focus and can be arrowed up and down, press enter to choose your selection. you can add variables by pressing hte tab key and then typing. the manual suggests typing weather press tab and then type the name of your town/city, unfortunately for Brits Launchy currently uses weather.com for weather searches and this only gives US data but after a quick skim of the manual I think it should be pretty easy to set up a uk bespoke route to a preferred UK centric site.. if all this weren’t grand enough you can also run Launchy off a USB drive (by following instructions in the manual) so this makes it one of a small breed of accessible portable apps or portable assistive technologies if you like along with NVDA, and very few others although it is a very high calibre stable with the front runner to date being Mozilla Live which is a suite of Firefox, FireVox, and NVDA all of which can run footprint free from a USB drive or CD. Note the Mozilla live Link points to the downloadable ISO (190MB) from which you can burn your own Mozilla Live CD.

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