Beyond the Button

Screenfont.ca looks like it could be interesting for the museum world.

Screenfont.CA is an activity of the Open & Closed Project. We are researching and developing a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.

Goodness knows we could benefit from standardizing to something across our institutions.

Guide by CellWe recently met with one of the representatives from Guide by Cell, a company offering to simplify the museum worlds use of cell phone technology. I have done extensive experimentation with Voice XML (VXML) and have been amazed at how beguilingly complex it is to connect all the dots. What initially seemed like a new ready for play web technology quickly revealed itself as an emerging technology solution that is far from fully baked for the casual developer.

We will hopefully be experimenting more with these technologies in the future but I was impressed how comprehensive Guide by Cell's solutions seem to be.