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Welcome to Camera Obscura, the womb without a view http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blind.html ...\n(skip to detailed site map)

"Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Getting Started as a Team Member"

"...To export data, head to your Activity page and click Create a new report. You'll see a download link in the right sidebar, and you'll receive an email to download as well. The you'll get a raw dump of data in CVS file that includes the following fields: Date Created (Eastern Standard Time) URL Help Desk ID Customer Name Customer Email Customer External ID Subject Number of Answers Customer Rating First Response Time (Eastern Standard Time) Open to Experts Escalated Escalation Type Question Category Languages" Not quite an accessibility issue. But Coursera decided to use Directly for crowdsourcing answers to questions pertaining to the Global Translator Community sent to translate@coursera.org . So this is relevant to anyone who sends such a query.

Graphic Testimony It's possible to provide long descriptions for dynamically generated graphs By Stan Berman

This is an experimental service provided by the Adaptive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) at the University Of Toronto.

with APA refs from citationmachine.net

Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Guideline 1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.

Via http://www.lucamascaro.info/blog/2006/12/accessibilit-oracle.html nel blog di Luca Mascaro

Amazon's new world-beating gadget isn't the savior of the e-book, genre. It's a proprietary, market-protecting anomaly in a world of increasingly open standards and accessible media. Shame on you, Amazon. (...) The thing that e-books need, I'm convinced, is PDF. Secure, reflowable, customizable PDF. The reader devices need to be easy on the eyes, lightweight, and allow users to shunt any PDF to it, whether it's a specially formatted e-book or not. If I am paying $300+ for essentially a document storage device on steroids, I need to be able to put my own junk on it, too. (...)You might be lining your own pockets and making a few sales, Mr. Bezos, but you're also promoting confusion in the marketplace and causing division in the e-book space at a time when everyone else is pushing for convergence and open standards. Thanks for nothing.

The author of the software in question, titled Kindlepid.py, is listed as Igor Skochinsky, a hardware hacker who performed a remarkable analysis of the Kindle and described in December 2007 how he was able to gain access to the device. It's unclear why Amazon waited so long to respond with a legal threat, and why the company targeted MobileRead.com: Skochinsky's original blog post about Kindlepid.py is dated December 2007, and the copy of the Kindlepid.py software hosted at the Googlepages.com Web-page posting site is still available for download at http://skochinsky.googlepages.com/azw-0.2.zip

Sadly, the Authors Guild does not support equal access for us. The Guild has told us that to read your books with text-to-speech we must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove our disabilities -- or pay extra. The Guild's position is outrageous and discriminates against the millions of people with print disabilities who are eager to be your readers and customers.

And here is a powerful statement from Carrie Russel, Director Program on Public Access to Information, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy "It is hard to know what is worse - Amazon cowtowing to the Authors Guild's request to remove the text to speech function or the Authors Guild seeking to squeeze every penny they can from the visually impaired who are already paying for the Kindle books. Amazon did not have to cave - there was no license they had agreed to with the Authors Guild to remove the speech function that would have expanded rights to private reading. Shame on the Authors Guild for being greedy and downright mean to the visually impaired."

"This is the captured audio of Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores Islands Hard http://live.wsj.com/#!B1BBA4F8-04F3-4039-9623-38B4D64B0703 on a black background. Just an experiment to compare YT's autocaptions with autotranscript given in http://live.wsj.com" 2 sets of English subs; in their Revision 0 status: YT autocaptions and WSJ transcript autotimed into captions via YT.

"This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. ... I ... I ... Richie's community ... its two thousand miles from the U S Coast has led to Europe's financial crisis better than me ... the reason why is because of the presence of a large U S Air Force base that has been used by Americans for over six decades ... a civic duty station Friday Jetson course that means ... the basis for buttermilk with the jobs and economy with a much needed cash injection ... but that is about change ... but some of two thousand and fourteen more severe thousand eight hundred and eighty Americans leaving a PC that is in these islands would head home ... as part of the U S government plan to cut five hundred began dollars in defense spending ... let me tying UB hundred and sixty America military personnel ... the reduced which the sports staff ... in hundreds opening playdough cost ... officials here say the consequences will be the ideal produced fell twenty two thousand residents ... and three ... the numbers are awful from any angle you look at namely enemy year reduction of thirty percent of the gross domestic product of our community ... local unemployment can go from eight percent to ... twenty years ... is to buy whenever reality to a small community in an island that has always welcomed the Americans like family ... the U S presence is everywhere the eye and ... bakery owner my little sis is news of the parts you USX it took a mosquito ... many of his customers are bracing for a doctor's future ... in their spending less money ... I ... deals have already dropped ten percent ... predicted to hit twenty five percent without a doubt ... girl co-workers and the beast the future looks even gloomier ... play that card is the day economic activity is carrying wheat production to the crisis stricken put's continent where demand isn't holding up ... that little chance of finding another job on the island ... may say more can turn of the country may be the

"Draft only Subtitles translated from English. Showing Revision 0, created Yesterday by Zuzanna Bien . " Yesterday= June 11, 2012 Amara software added banner, disabled edit link, didn't add task Issue persists June 12, 2012

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix) Issue still persists for the subs: Spanish http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/v0NqTigKN0xa/es/333931/ Portuguese, Brazilian http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/v0NqTigKN0xa/pt-br/334822/ but possibly, their bookmarks didn't get transfered to this Multimedia accessibility group, so Darren Bridenbeck may not have seen them when he did the manual fixes yesterday.

"Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/08/2012 by Margherita Martignoni ." Amara software added this banner, disactivated the Edit subtitles link, but didn't add a task for these subs. Video added to Music Captioning team Margherita Martignoni is not a member of Music Captioning: she therefore cannot have caused the task that caused the banner etc. June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue persists, but then this link didn't get transfered to this Multimedia Accessibility group with the my other links tagged taskblocked, so these subs didn't undergo the manual fix that removed the Amara task blocks in the other subs. I am able to enter the widget version of the subs by main page via Start a new translation in the main page, then choosing Subtitle into Italian (100%) (normal link, not grayed) Directly from video (more work) I was able to change a few things, but though I saved the subs marking them as complete, the banner is still there. I.e. the "lying to the software" workaround indicated in http://support.universalsubtitles.org/categories/6573/forums/28027/topics/4905 only works to prevent the taskblocking, but cannot remove it.