- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:14:30 -0500
- To: Dick Brown <dickb@microsoft.com>, "'Jonathan Chetwynd'" <jay@peepo.com>, Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 05:10 PM 2/3/2000 -0800, Dick Brown wrote: >But I guess my question is more bottom-line: How can site owners (such as the WAI) represent large amounts of text (such as guidelines) so that it is accessible to non-readers? How can the many concepts in those guidelines be represented in non-text form? Jonathon has made suggestions for this previously. Large amounts of text will pose the same problem as large numbers of graphics. The blind person will lose comprehension of a page of graphics, even if tagged, just as a severely cognitively/reading disabled person will lose comprehension of a page of text even if it is marked with eye-catching fonts in titles and subtitles, and the use of color to mark items of note in the text. >Likewise, what can the online version of the New York Times do to make it possible for non-readers to get all of the day's news? Is it enough that an audio summary is available via Audible.com? > Let Jonathon answer definitively for his end of the population, but the folks I've worked with would enjoy an audio summary on something that can be installed free, such as real player. >Do sighted non-readers ever use screen reader software so they can listen to >the text on a Web page? The PC's just delivered for my computer lab at a K-2nd grade school do NOT include any screen reader software. Nor have I been given a budget to purchase software even tho this is a change from MAC's to PC's (Actually, the only software tha came with it is Windows NT with Paint, Notepad and Wordpad... if this were the place to do it, I'd be soliciting software donations!) Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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