Accessible Zoo Visit
Thu, Apr. 17th, 2025 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You can check out the outlined plan over here. If you don't have a Tumblr account of your own, I'd be happy to pass on any feedback on your behalf.
Creating on Crip Time, the restfestfilmfestival.org runs August 15-22, 2024.
It's a by-us, for-us event. They're prioritizing access--including
among other considerations https://www.restfestfilmfestival.org/accessibility
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It’s a cool concept, hides clutter in your room. Also creates barriers.
Zoom virtual backgrounds combine you in the foreground with something nifty in the background. (Think the weather reporter on TV in front of a big US map.) In the past week I've seen the prow of a ship, inside of Tardis, comets, the Hamilton stage and more. Zoom itself says This feature works best with a green screen and uniform lighting, to allow Zoom to detect the difference between you and your background. -- which is not equipment most people have at home!
The Zoom software uses clever algorithms to isolate your outline from what your camera captures. But these algorithms often fail for delicate edges, like hair or hands. Outcome: every movement captured on camera includes Zoom struggling to adjust the edges, which can result in your head and hands sparkling, flashing, or disappearing altogether.
It’s distracting and unpleasant for me when even one user has the virtual background. For some of us with migraine, vestibular issues, brain injury or epilepsy it can be a complete barrier.
Even if the software works perfectly, some of the available backgrounds include so much detail that it overwhelms your image. I can’t read your facial expression, much less your lips. This results in no benefit to using video at all.
Do you have issues with this aspect of Zoom? Are there benefits to the backgrounds that I'm missing?
CADET is free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. CADET does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in any Web browser, so users do not need to upload private videos or proprietary content to servers or video-hosting sites in order to create captions.
( feature overview and origins )
Variously called “The Caption Center,” the “Media Access Group,” and currently “The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media.” ↩︎
But I didn’t anticipate how much my vision disorder would eventually affect my own view of myself, my work, and my life in fandom.
In pop culture, disability is a trope, especially visual impairment.