- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:31:12 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- cc: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, WAI Guidelines WG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Group is interested in tool-based ways of simulating how someone would perceive content, as a way of presenting it to an author for a choice about which seemed more appropraite as a way of conveying the message. So any techniques that you have in mind wich would meet the criteria (I don't think many authoring tool manufacturers are likely to add a suggestion taht their users get totally inebriated and try to make sense of what they are doing, but there are other approaches <grin/>) of being implementatble in tools would be intersting. If yu have suggestions for how to implement repairs that mean two choices can be more easily auto-generated, this would also be helpful. Cheers Charles On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Anne Pemberton wrote: Chas, Kynn and others who are interested in simulations exposing obstacles.... There is a classic paper used in training teachers of the learning disabled, that helps you understand how some experience text. In this exercise, you are presented with the paper (or in this case a web page) on which the spacing of the words has been altered. For example using the last sentence: Inth ise xercis e,y ou ar epres ente dwit hth epap er(o rint hiscase awe bpag e) onw hic hthes pacin gof thew ordsh asbe enalt ered. The group leader asks you to read it aloud, then urges you to stop reading it choppily ... I think something similar could be made to simulate what some cognitively disabled and some learning disabled folks would experience ... by greeking out all words in a page that are not on the Dolch (or other definitive word list) list, and asking the user to identify the topic of the page perhaps with and without illustrations. Anne
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