I’ve also made a short video of people with vision impairments talking about technologies – the ones that help them and the ones that preesnt barriers. It’s a collection of edited soundbytes (“this is great, this causes mne problems…”) taken with a handheld videocam so it’s got something of an on-the-street vox-pop feel to it. That goes down well too because, again, it very quickly paints a picture and helps the audience understand and empathise. Much better than me simply standing there with a bulleted list of good and bad technologies. Unfortunately, I don’t have it online yet.

There is a challenge with making sure the video part of the presentation is accessible. For vision impaired people all the essential information must be presented either in the soundtrack or in your own accompanying voiceover. This can take some practice to achieve. Captioning seems relatively straightforward, although I hate to say I’ve not got around to that yet. It’s next on the list!