- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:54:11 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
William, Yes, Steve said he noticed that error ... just pulled out one of his books with big pretty pictures to show me exactly what is wrong.... in the example engines have an electric motor in the trucks (boogies/wheel assemblies) ... He said he let the error go unnoted since we were interested in the illustrations and how they are used more than the text. Oh, I fowarded your questions about illustrating some of the WAI sites to my (former) sister-in-law (a couple of decades ago we were married to brothers and divorced them). She's a good artist, does some computer art, has recently joined the ranks of web designer, and we'll see if she can come up with suggestions on illustrating. Fell asleep last night thinking how unrealistic the example of the LD student with ADD was ... The student needs to be in high school to be taking such a literature course, and the ADD is still going to play havoc with listening to the reading, since it will cause the student to have to replay the text and still keep her behind her classmates in the "reading". Also, at middle school level, literature materials are still well illustrated, which, if it's present on the web materials used in the class, will be shut out from the LD child who needs them while reading since common text-to-speech software doesn't accommodate illustrations while reading. Anne At 06:24 PM 11/29/00 -0800, William Loughborough wrote: > At 08:22 PM 11/29/00 -0800, Anne Pemberton wrote: > appropriate paragraphs of text. > > You might alert Steve to the fact that the information on the page about >locomotives http://www.k12.hi.us/~kapunaha/Trains/locomotives.htm is incorrect > > "" > > since diesel/electric means that the electric motors that drive the train >are powered by diesel-engine driven electric generators. > > > -- > Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE 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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