by frog
Rod and Nandor yesterday launched GreenSpin, the Green Party’s “Multimedia Manifesto”. It’s a CD-Rom packed with videos, audio, and text about the Greens’ campaign. The videos are really cool: interviews with each of our returning MPs, our TV ads, our TV opening broadcast, and an audiovisual message to the track “Time is Running Out” by Unity Pacific.
The CD-Rom sets a new standard in political party communication through video clips, music and text. It gets across the Green vision for New Zealand and highlights our bold policies and our great team of candidates. In 1975 the Values Party set a new standard for political party manifestos with its 90-page publication with a full colour cover that was sold in book shops. We have now eclipsed that cutting-edge initiative with this 21st Century equivalent.
If you want a copy of the CD sent to you, email cd@greens.org.nz
with your name and address. If you just want to watch the videos, they’re available for streaming here.
Published in Campaign | Media by frog on Mon, September 5th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Does the CD-Rom include English Subtitles for the Deaf (for videos) and transcripts of the audio?
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Yeah. And where’s the Braille version of the National manifesto!
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KiwiSurfer, no the CD doesn’t, to our shame, there are transcripts of the audio tracks on the website, but not on the CD, and there really should be transcripts of the video as well as the option for subtitles. This is the only failing in our website accessibility status.
http://www.greens.org.nz/office/accessibility.htm
Our accessibility policy does apologise for not having transcripts of the frogblog audio interviews. The Greens just don’t have the resources to do the transcripts – if anyone wants to volunteer, I’m sure frog would be delighted to receive a transcript of one of his audioblogs.
oh and mugwump, nobody uses Braille any more – screen-reading software is the rage…
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_1_jackie.html
Like the majority of blind people, Jackie knows very little Braille. She has a Braille label maker to mark her CDs, but she can not read Braille books, because they are written in grade 2 Braille, which she has never learned. When she shops and plays online, she uses the latest version of JAWS, a screen reader that integrates with Internet Explorer on Windows. JAWS uses an advanced text-to-speech synthesizer to read web sites aloud. It also has a mind-numbing array of esoteric keyboard shortcuts for navigating through web sites, all of which Jackie has memorized. She can read well-designed web sites even more quickly than she can read her audio textbooks.
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