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The mystery of the 100 buttons that dont exist
First a little backstory. We finally had an experienced JAWS user test our accessibility work for BigBlueButton and it turns out we were using JAWS incorrectly. We were testing our work by simply...
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BBB Recording Accessibility: Dealing with three sources of audio input
One of the longest standing accessibility issues that I’ve had on my mind is related to the playback of a recorded meeting. When you playback a meeting you have three main sources of input coming in;...
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Flex ItemRenderers and their habit of recycling
The last two weeks I’ve been working on unifying the Users and Listeners windows into a new module called Participants. The biggest part of my work was making a new DataGrid that consolidated a lot of...
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Finally put in a pull request with our accessibility work
Finally after months and months of fixes to our original attempt at making the client accessible we have submitted another pull request. It included a total of 67 commits and hopefully it functions...
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First business trip out of the country
Three days ago I discovered that I was invited to go to Kansas City, Missouri for a Mozilla Hackfest next Thursday (March 21). Even though it’s quite short notice I’m quite stoked to be going to the...
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Kansas City: Google Fibre is amazing
Dale and I are in Kansas City, Missouri for the Mozilla Hackfest “Hacking the Gigabit City”, we just arrived today and the actual event doesn’t start till tomorrow so we went to check out the Google...
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Making a change to the BigBlueButton source with git
One of the biggest issues we have had in our work here at CDOT on the BigBlueButton team is proper management of git branches. It has never been fully clear what kind of process we should be following...
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Improving the MakeAPI healthcheck
For OSD600 we have to choose a bug from the list and try and make significant progress towards fixing it. I prefer working on server side issues so I selected Bug 864942. The bug involves modifying the...
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Creating a VM for Webmaker
The full Webmaker suite is rather cumbersome and especially difficult to get running on Windows so I’ve taken on the task, at the suggestion of Dave Humphrey, of creating a virtual machine to hopefully...
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State of the Webmaker VM
Since my last post I’ve done a lot of work and gone through many iterations of the Webmaker Vagrant VM. I originally had the thought to put the vagrant files right into the webmaker-suite. We could...
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