- From: Chuck Hitchcock <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:05:19 -0400
- To: "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I wanted to make one additional point with regard to cognitive disabilities and a suggestion. Apologies in advance to those who find this all far too obvious. It's not just that content and tools need to work together to support the individual but we must also consider: 1. The purpose or intent of the page author, and 2. the purpose or intent of the page/site visitor (reader, learner, etc.). Otherwise, it is impossible to measure the importance of various cognitive style and ability differences. Since this is all likely to become quite complex, I would suggest beginning with a simple approach. Using CAST's UDL framework, I am attempting to categorize some of the key cognitive topics. This needs more work but I think I should put something out there. As the discussion with iconic representations shows, this work will not be easy and great caution must be exercised lest these efforts are seen by others as extreme or goofy. My suggestion is to take a list of cognitive topics and attempt to agree on a few that are likely to create the most significant barriers for the greatest number of users. This may require a bit of guesswork but I suspect that stepping back from the details of one approach or issue may prove productive. Chuck Chuck Hitchcock Chief Education Technology Officer, and Director, National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum, CAST, Inc., 39 Cross Street, Peabody, MA 01960 Email chitchcock@cast.org Voice +1 978-531-8555 x233 TTY +1 978-531-3110 Fax +1 978-531-0192 <http://cast.org/> <http://cast.org/bobby/>
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