We’re working on the next update to digress.it and I thought you might be interested in the keyboard shortcuts that Alex has added. It’s activated on this site: http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org/ Use the arrow keys to go up and down the paragraphs in a page; use the j and k keys to go back and forward document sections and use the c key to jump to the comment box and the escape key to jump out of the comment box. Alex has also added a lot of markup in the code for accessibility. Feedback very welcome.
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Joss Winn
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Joss Winn
Great news. Our tender to JISC for ‘Benefits and Realisation’ funds was accepted. Over the next three months, we’ll be working on meeting the recent accessibility review of digress.it and creating high quality documentation and supporting video tutorials. We hope that this will ensure that the work we did on the JISCPress project last year, is sustained through increased user take up and code contributions. You can read our tender document, here.
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Christian Wach
I’d be interested to know how you got on. Commentpress works with or without Javascript, BTW.
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Joss Winn
I see you’re the developer of CommentPress v2, so I’ll take your word on jscript working. Does it work for commenting at the paragraph level, too? That’s the real stumbling block. If you’ve got it working, then I guess we need to look at your code. Thanks for getting in touch.
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Joss Winn
The original version of CommentPress didn’t work without Javascript. I’m not sure about the new version, but I’m pretty sure the ability to comment at the paragraph level is not possible without jscript being turned on. digress.it v3 is due to be released in December. RC1 is available to test here: http://code.google.com/p/digressit/downloads/list We’ll be incorporating changes for accessibility into the final version. If you have any feedback on RC1, please use the issue tracker on the Google code site and join our Discussion group, too: http://groups.google.com/group/digressit
Thank you.
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Joss Winn
We were invited to and have submitted a tender to JISC for funding from their Benefits and Realisation Programme. We have proposed to develop JISCPress for accessibility as well as develop comprehensive support materials including video tutorials. UKOLN will act as a user group to provide feedback. Fingers crossed, we’ll start in May and run for three months.
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Joss Winn
Just submitted a proposal to the Online Deliberation Conference 2010 http://j.mp/bd19Sn Hopefully, we’ll be demoing WriteToReply/JISCPress
Christian Wach are discussing. 
Jonathan Scott 1:00 pm on September 12, 2011 Permalink |
How’s progress? Any new features coming soon? Thanks Joss
Joss Winn 1:05 pm on September 12, 2011 Permalink |
There should be a release soon with new themes and better accessibility. You can see progress here: http://code.google.com/p/digressit/source/list Please test and feedback via the Google code issue tracker or the Google group. Thank you!
Jonathan Scott 1:08 pm on September 12, 2011 Permalink |
Do you have any HE case studies?
Joss Winn 1:12 pm on September 12, 2011 Permalink |
I don’t. Though I know HEIs are using it either independently or on http://digress.it It’s difficult to track who’s using the download plugin version. You could take a look here: http://digress.it/examples/