This page provides links to a few samples of our audio and video work.

> Social Software for GlassFish Screencasts

Three screencasts designed, written, narrated, and produced for the open source Social Software for GlassFish project. Social Software for GlassFish is an open source suite of blogging and bookmarking tools. In addition to the links provided on this page, these screencasts are also available on the GlassFish Update Center Screencasts wiki.

• Creating a User
  Play Flash video (3.5MB, 3:05 minutes)
• Creating a Blog and Blog Entry
  Play Flash video (9.6MB, 5:48 minutes)
• Managing Blog Comments and Entries
  Play Flash video (22.8MB, 8:36 minutes)

> Marguerite's Place Fundraiser Video

Music video designed and produced as a fundraiser/public service piece celebrating the ten-year anniversary of Marguerite's Place, Inc., a Catholic-based, non-profit transitional housing program for women and children in crisis. Note that the resolution of this video has been reduced from its original DVD distribution size to facilitate Internet streaming.

• Play QuickTime movie (23.6MB, 4:00 minutes)

> Xerox/Kurzweil Personal Reader Audio-Based Documentation

Audio-based documentation designed, written, narrated, and produced for the Xerox/Kurzweil Personal Reader, a portable scanner/reader for visually impaired and dyslexic users (latest version of product can be found here). This device allows users to read aloud books, magazines, and other documents.

I have written, narrated, and produced over a hundred hours of narration for this product line. What is presented here are just a few very small samples from one User Guide highlighting some of the unusual aspects of these projects.

In particular, because this product line is intended for visually impaired users, the User Guides for the products had to be designed in ways that optimized the results of optical character recognition and audio reproduction. This documentation was produced in print, braille, and audio formats.

Some examples of these design tweaks included print formatting characteristics such as font size and kerning, typeface, additional punctuation in headers, simplified column layouts, wide margins, no tables, separate card-stock tutorial pages, and the inclusion of navigational markers for braille translation.

More subtle editorial and design elements were related to conceptual and physical navigation: the use of repetition rather than cross-reference, explicit stating of page, section, and chapter numbers and titles, spatial descriptions that relied on tactile cues instead of visual references, and the use of encoded low-cycle audio tones in narration that became audible location marker beeps when played in fast-forward or reverse. Note too that the pace of the narration is more rapid than usual, because many visually impaired users tend to listen "faster" than sighted users.

Finally, all this documentation and narration had to be UL-approved because it includes instructions that guide users to plug and unplug electrical devices, open computers, insert add-in cards, and even change DIP switch settings!

• Preface/How This Guide is Organized
  Play MP3 audio (6MB, 2:38 minutes)
• Chapter 1: Introduction to the Personal Reader
  Play MP3 audio (10.2MB, 4:28 minutes)
• Chapter 2, Section 2: Physical Description of Unit (excerpt)
  Play MP3 audio (15.5MB, 6:47 minutes)

For additional samples, or additional information about the samples provided here, please contact us.