[Important] Install new tool for accessibility in BigBlueButton

[markos calderon]

Hi everyone,

I just pushed some changes for enable accessibility in BigBlueButton, which will help the work that the guys from Seneca College are doing.

These changes perform the following tasks:

1) when a presentation is uploaded, the text of each page is extracted to a textfile using the tool pdftotext... the textfiles are located in the following folder with the following format name:

/var/bigbluebutton/<meetingID>/<meetingID>/<presentationName>/textfiles/slide-#.txt

2) In the bigbluebutton-client, the textfiles are loaded in the array PresentationSlides when it's performed the call of the Presentation API:

/presentation/$conference/$room/$presentation_name/slides  

If you are developing and you are working with latest changes of BigBlueButton, you will need to install the following tool:

sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils

So, please, install this tool, later this tool will be included in the BigBlueButton installation packaging (in 0.81), otherwise your installation won't work (if you are developing in the bigbluebutton-client or bigbluebutton-web)...  

- Markos

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[Chad Pilkey]

Thanks for the help with this Markos we will get it implemented into our accessibility fork.

Chad

[Chad Pilkey]

One question Markos, because you've made changes to bbb-web I need to setup the web dev environment and compile it correct?

Chad

[markos calderon]

yes, you will need to compile bigbluebutton-web and bigbluebutton-client...

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[Chad Pilkey]

I finished hooking the text all in. Thanks again for the help Markos.

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