I want to congratulate the whole team, especially the workers behind the scene in giving me this opportunity of participating. Thank you and till next time.
Greetings from Hendrik A.Ph. van Roosmalen in Voorburg Holland

First, I love the closed captioning, but I really wish that I had a scroll bar on it so that I could look back more than 2 lines if I’ve missed a word or got distracted by something on my end.

Likewise, it would be quite helpful if I could pause and restart (or even fast forward) the video. I know when I’ve used streaming video on other sites I can do this, with it just storing the extra on my computer until I can watch it. I know I could go to the archive and find it again, but realistically, I’m less likely to do that.

I’d also like to be able to resize the screen or re-arrange the panes. The question window is very, very small, and the list of files that can be downloaded doesn’t show enough of the long filenames to always know what the different files are. (This was especially true in the first session when there were a number of files with names that only differed (apparently) in the last few characters or in the extensions.)

I’d also like to see names more obviously displayed. When you have people on stage, it would be nice if their names were displayed, not just announced at the beginning. I’d also like to hear the names of the people who ask specific questions. I guess I’m looking for the “see and be seen” component that I find so valuable at brick and morter conferences.

Other than that, it is quite nice to be able to participate in this conference remotely. I probably wouldn’t have gotten to this one if I had to travel to it, but it is nice to have access to the information and learn something useful.

Keep it up and thanks

Nigel

The less resourced settings definitely pose a big challenge in wheelchair prescription: how to optimally prescribe a wheelchair that both fits the client with the limited amount of available resources. I think telerehab can open a way for collaboration (discussions, second opinions, new ideas, etc) and resource sharing (information on available wheelchairs, etc) -not only locally, but globally.

The final discussion points today focused on technology in “low income” families and regions. Participants may be interested in the recently released WHO guidelines on wheelchair prescription in what it termed “less resourced” settings. These settings include rural and remote communities in first world countries.

The guidelines are here:
http://www.who.int/disabilities/publications/technology/wheelchairguidelines/en/index.html

Proceedings from a recent Symposium on the Guidelines are here:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/events/2008events/Wheelchair.asp

Emma.

I am running FIrefox 2.xxx on and Asus eee 900 with Adobe Flash Player 9.0. However I do not have Acrobat Connect Add-in installed accorsing to the troubleshooter- everything else is apparently working fine- when I click on the link to install Acrobat Connect Add-in it states that the resource is not available. The other is a real clunker with way too slow a processor.

So does anyone know if I can get a linux version of Acrobat Connect Add-in or do I have to uninstall my daughter from the computer?

Thanks- Nigel

SOS support Team