Easy SlideShare (my hack entry for mashed08)

I am just sitting at “Mashed 08″:http://mashed08.eventbrite.com/ and just released my hack for the event – an easier interface to SlideShare.

SlideShare is a great place to publish your presentations on the web. Uploaded Powerpoints and PDFs get converted to Flash movies you can embed in your blogs and web sites.

SlideShare also automatically creates a transcript of the presentation in HTML format, which is quite cool, but hidden far down the page and hard to reach in a screen reader. Easy SlideShare retrieves this information and shows it in an easier accessible manner.

As with “EasyFlickr”:http://icant.co.uk/easy-flickr/ and “Easy YouTube”:http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/ all you need to do to show a SlideShare presentation in Easy SlideShare is to add the URL at the end of the Easy SlideShare URL:

http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/purple-hack-fodder

http://icant.co.uk/easy-slideshare/?slides=http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/purple-hack-fodder

You can try it out with “my mashed08 presentation”:http://icant.co.uk/easy-slideshare/?slides=http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/purple-hack-fodder

Easy SlideShare is Open Source, licensed with BSD, and you can download it here:

• “Download Easy SlideShare v1.0″:http://icant.co.uk/easy-slideshare/easyslideshare.zip
• “Read the Easy SlideShare Documentation”:http://icant.co.uk/easy-slideshare/about

Tags: mashed08 accessibility slideshare hack screenreader

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