[Fwd: Wheeling in SL video (text transcript)]

Fri Dec 14 21:35:25 UTC 2007

Thanks so much for sharing this Mike!

It makes me wonder how Judith would use the lightbox.  Can she press  
down 2 keys at once on the keyboard?

-Daphne

On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Michael S Elledge wrote:

> Hi Everyone--
>
> I thought I should send this around from the WAI list. There's a  
> virtual nightclub in Second Life for persons who use wheel chairs  
> called "Wheelies." The video (http://www.youtube.com/watch? 
> v=CBlaiBV_yJs)  about it includes footage of a woman with cerebral  
> palsy who talks about it. Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley did the  
> video; the transcription is by Alan Chuter of Technosite, Madrid.  
> The attached email has more details.
>
> Mike
>
> The transcript follows below:
>
> [Caption: Wheeling in Second Life]
> Judith: I work during the day, so when I come home I've only got  
> like a couple of hours. So by the time I do my own emails and  
> correspondence that comes in during the day I might have forty-five  
> minutes or an hour to do whatever, so
> Russ: And what's your current really big thing on the Web that  
> you're into? Judith: Second Life. I've got a wheelchair in Second  
> Life. You can choose whether you want to be in a wheelchair or  
> not.You can have crutches, you can have whatever disability you  
> have in real life in Second Life.
> Russ: Do you always stay in your wheelchair in second life?
> Judith: No, no, no.
> Russ: Are there many other people in wheelchairs in Second Life?
> Judith: Simon Walsh.
> Russ: From the UK?
> Judith: Yes. And he always stays in his wheelchair. Just like in  
> real life, I find the attitude of people in Second Life is  
> disappointing. I have run an experiment myself. I've gone to this  
> [?] website and this able bodied person got out on the dance floor  
> and danced with different avatars and different people for half an  
> hour or whatever you call them. Then I've gone away, put myself in  
> my wheelchair, gone back, the same people were there and they  
> didn't want to know me.
> Russ: Are there special places in Second Life where people in  
> wheelchairs hang out.
> Judith: Yes, "Wheelies".
> Russ: And what's Wheelies.
> Judith: That's a nightclub specially built people, by a man who has  
> cerebral palsy, in the UK.
> Russ: Can you take us to it?
> Judith: yes.
> [Wheelies was started by Simon]
> Judith: Unfortunately like real life you've got to go around things  
> because you can't go through them. You can fly over them. Oh,  
> there's Simon!.
> Russ: He's in there is he?
> Judith: Yes. He was there before, in there [...]
> [Caption: How many people visit "Wheelies"?]
> [On-screen dialog: (asking how many people visit Wheelies each week)
> "Wheelie or norm?" Few 100 I guess.]
> Judith: When I first started we got a couple of hundred.
> [Caption: Going up to the dance floor.]
> Judith: Is that Simon up there? The avatar... [looking to other  
> screen] that's him in real life.
> Russ: And he was on big brother?
> Judith: Yes, in the UK. [turning towards dance floor] And that's  
> the DJ, that girl in there, green, and she [plays?...] the DJ  
> there. And she talks to you over that thing in there.
> Russ: Oh, right?
> Judith: And [she's] talking to me.
> Russ: do you think that this will be a really useful tool for  
> people who are unable to get around, who have problems of mobility  
> in real life?
> Judith: Yes, because you can have friends without having to go out  
> and physically find them.
>
>
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> From: Alan Chuter <achuter at technosite.es>
> To: w3c-wai-ig at w3.org
> Subject: Wheeling in SL video (text transcript)
> Date: Fri Dec 14 10:13:14 GMT 2007
>
> [see attachment: "headers1.txt" size: 3322 bytes]
>
>
> Thanks for sharing this. I think it's excellent. However, my
> colleagues who are not native English speakers had trouble
> understanding the speech (as would deaf people), so I did a quick text
> transcript which I share here. It's too long to go in a comment on
> YouTube. Pity they don't allow for transcripts.
>
> [Caption: Wheeling in Second Life]
> Judith: I work during the day, so when I come home I've only got like
> a couple of hours. So by the time I do my own emails and
> correspondence that comes in during the day I might have forty-five
> minutes or an hour to do whatever, so
> Russ: And what's your current really big thing on the Web that  
> you're into?
> Judith: Second Life. I've got a wheelchair in Second Life. You can
> choose whether you want to be in a wheelchair or not.You can have
> crutches, you can have whatever disability you have in real life in
> Second Life.
> Russ: Do you always stay in your wheelchair in second life?
> Judith: No, no, no.
> Russ: Are there many other people in wheelchairs in Second Life?
> Judith: Simon Walsh.
> Russ: From the UK?
> Judith: Yes. And he always stays in his wheelchair. Just like in real
> life, I find the attitude of people in Second Life is disappointing. I
> have run an experiment myself. I've gone to this [?] website and this
> able bodied person got out on the dance floor and danced with
> different avatars and different people for half an hour or whatever
> you call them. Then I've gone away, put myself in my wheelchair, gone
> back, the same people were there and they didn't want to know me.
> Russ: Are there special places in Second Life where people in
> wheelchairs hang out.
> Judith: Yes, "Wheelies".
> Russ: And what's Wheelies.
> Judith: That's a nightclub specially built people, by a man who has
> cerebral palsy, in the UK.
> Russ: Can you take us to it?
> Judith: yes.
> [Wheelies was started by Simon]
> Judith: Unfortunately like real life you've got to go around things
> because you can't go through them. You can fly over them. Oh, there's
> Simon!.
> Russ: He's in there is he?
> Judith: Yes. He was there before, in there [...]
> [Caption: How many people visit "Wheelies"?]
> [On-screen dialog: (asking how many people visit Wheelies each week)
> "Wheelie or norm?" Few 100 I guess.]
> Judith: When I first started we got a couple of hundred.
> [Caption: Going up to the dance floor.]
> Judith: Is that Simon up there? The avatar... [looking to other
> screen] that's him in real
> life.
> Russ: And he was on big brother?
> Judith: Yes, in the UK. [turning towards dance floor] And that's the
> DJ, that girl in there, green, and she [plays?...] the DJ there. And
> she talks to you over that thing in there.
> Russ: Oh, right?
> Judith: And [she's] talking to me.
> Russ: do you think that this will be a really useful tool for people
> who are unable to get around, who have problems of mobility in real
> life?
> Judith: Yes, because you can have friends without having to go out and
> physically find them.
>
>
> best regards,
>
> Alan Chuter
> Technosite (Fundosa Group),
> Madrid, Spain
>
>
>
>
> On 14/12/2007, Roger Hudson <rhudson at usability.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Russ Weakley and I recently filmed a friend who has cerebral palsy  
>> using
>> Second Life. The video was part of a presentation we gave at  
>> OZeWAI about
>> Web 2.0 and accessibility.
>>
>>
>>
>> Judith, who is in the video, and Simon (who built the Wheelies  
>> club in SL)
>> have kindly agreed to me putting the video on Youtube so people  
>> who are
>> interested in accessibility can see it. The video is at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBlaiBV_yJs
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope you find it interesting.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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Daphne Ogle
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University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu
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