BEST Talk Slide Presentation Tool ReadMe.txt file

Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)
https://bestaccessibility.consulting
Last updated March 6, 2025

The purpose of this presentation tool:
1. A simple HTML process for creating talk presentations for accessibility workshops, and
2. A fully accessible slide presentation that can be viewed online during or after the talk presentation.

Introduction:
BEST Talk Slide Show is a presentation tool generated from a server side Perl script.
Splits a HTML file into several smaller files in a subdirectory with the folder name of the Talk presentation.
Splits the HTML presentation before every H1 element for each slide page.
Generated files exists in several user selectable style sheets.
Number of selectable style sheets is configurable.
The TalkCreate process adds navigation buttons, icon and table of contents to the output presentation.
You can add notes and external links between the Start and End Resource HTML tags, which will behidden and only shown during the slide presentation when pressing alt+h.
You can add a video to a slide page by including the (playvideo: movie.mp4) line.
You can create subpages on a slide page and you can create Tab Panels on any page by setting the default tags in the config.ini file. See the file BEST-Slide-Show-Demo.html for examples.
When on the Table of Contents alt+1 through alt+9 will Display slide number 1-9 from the Table Of Content page.
When on a Slide Page:
  alt+h - Hide and Unhide content between Start and End Resource HTML tags,
  alt+c - Go to Table of Contents,
  alt+n - Go to next slide
  alt+p - Go to previous slide,
  alt+s - Change style sheet.

History & acknowledgements:
The original Slidemaker was made in 1997 by Stephan Montigaud.
Updated by Bert Bos, June 2002.
Subsequently improved by Pierre Fillault, Bert Bos, Masayasu Ishikawa and many others.

For more background information see:
W3C Slidemaker Tool - Slide list: https://dev.w3.org/slidemaker/YYMMsub/Overview.html
Combined Slidemaker: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/Presentations/slidemaker/Overview.html

Installation:
1. Unzip the Talk.zip file.
2. Copy all files:
2A. Upload all files to your remote server, or
2B. Create a local server on your computer (ActiveState: https://www.activestate.com/)
3. Customize the html files (see customizing instructions below):
3A. Customize the config.ini file.
3B. Customize the Index.html, TalkCreate.html, TalkSelect.html and UserTable.html files.
3C. Customize the Trailer.html file, which will be used as the last slide of the presentation.
4. Run the TalkSelect.html file and select the BEST-Slide-Show-Demo.html option for an example.
5. Create your own HTML slide show:
5A. Create a new HTML file with <h1> as the start of each slide.
5B. Add the new HTML Talk slide show file to the TalkCreate.html and TalkSelect.html files under the <select>/<options>.
5C. Using TalkCreate.html generate the Talk slide show from your new HTML file.
5D. Using TalkSelect.html view the output of your new Talk slide show.
6. View the UserTable.html for feedback data user log.

Talk Customization Changes:
The following files need to be modified for your specific installation.
1. index.html
    <title>Talk Presentation - Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)</title>
    <img src="img/eagle-150x150.jpg">
    <h1>Talk Presentation Tools</h1>
    <footer> Author https://www.davidbest.ca">Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST), All rights reserved

2. TalkCreate.html
    <title>Create Talk Slides - Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)</title>
    <img src="img/eagle-150x150.jpg">
    <h1>Creating BEST Talk Slide Show Presentation</h1>
    Replace the <option data> with your own HTML Talk content files.
  <footer> Author https://www.bestaccessibility.consulting

3. TalkSelect.html
    <title>Learning Content - Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)</title>
    <img src="img/eagle-150x150.jpg">
    <h1>Welcome To BEST Talk Education</h1>
    Replace the <option data> with your own HTML Talk content files.
    <footer> Author https://edu.davidbest.ca">Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST), All rights reserved

4. Trailer.html
  Creat  your own trailer file content or leave this file blank.

5. UserTable.html
    <title>User Activity Data Log - Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)</title>
    <img src="img/eagle-150x150.jpg">
    <h1>User Activity Data Log</h1>
    <footer> Author https://www.davidbest.ca">Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST), All rights reserved

6. Config.ini
  Modify the config parameters as needed.
  If you create your own style sheet, then add it to the "CSSfiles" parameter list.
  The parameters that must be modified for your installation are:
    orgName	= Business and Educational Services in Technology (BEST)
    homeDir = https://test.davidbest.ca
    author	= info@David.Best
    authorUrl	= mailto:info@david.best
    logoFile	= eagle-150x150.jpg
    logoLink	= https://www.bestaccessibility.consulting
    logoAlt	= BEST Logo

End of Talk ReadMe.txt file.
