- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:08:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- cc: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Anne Pemberton wrote:
Chaals,
The animations have been lumped with the flicker in lots of
discussions. Which is why I believed they were considered similarly. My
error.
Err, no, our error I suspect.
[snip]
But, as an overall statement, the
kids I know to be ADD/ADHD are far less distractible and on task during
their computer time than during their classroom time.
[snip]
Perhaps I am just looking at the difference between the young ADD/ADHD
person and the adult ADD/ADHD person.
Well, teaching kids is closer to usability testing than just theorising about
them, but still not the same thing. From my experience in a classroom
computers are more interesting than a lot of other stuff...
Some things we could find out: when does distractability occur? Upon
opening the site? When users try to read the text with the animation
still going? Does the distractability occur with a single animation? Does
size matter? Does it help to put it in more white space? How far away
from the animation should words be? Over 5 space, 10 space, or always
down at least one line or two?
Yep, these are good things to learn about.
[snip]
need to run down a copy of the Dolch words and work from that ...
You could go and buy a dictionary meant for primary schools. It isn't a
definitive list, but is probably a good start.
chaals
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