Re: Joe wrote: "There is no plan of action available to you in order to accommodate learning-disabled visitors"

Rust,
There are guidelines that would be helpful, to people with learning 
difficulties.
WCAG may already include some that TechDis suggested:

but does it mention: use easy to understand graphical navigational cues?
a careful reading will provide more examples.

there is also now a graphical browser 
http://www.widgit.com/products/webwise/browser.htm
that provides symbols (along with text), known to many users, but 
unfortunately currently not widely available on the web, due to 
copyright issues.

thanks






On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 02:54  pm, RUST Randal wrote:

>
> Jonathan Chetwynd said:
>
>> you might like to contrast:
>> "There is no plan of action available to you in order to accommodate
>> learning-disabled visitors"
>
>> There are a range of resources on enabling people with learning
>> difficulties to enjoy the web, linked from here:
>> http://www.learningdifferently.com/develop/papers.html  most
>> are by experts, but yours is the only one
>> with such a depressing conclusion.
>
> It seems to me that nearly all of the articles on this list deal with,
> in effect, creating Web sites that are more usable.
> This list of links provided by Jonathan is nothing more than a
> collection of articles (one of which is written by Joe Clark).
>
> WCAG lays out a path, a set of guidelines, that shows designers and
> developers how to approach creating Web sites that are more accessible.
>
> I think all Joe is saying is that there is no guideline for 
> successfully
> accommodating the learning disabled. And really, how could there be? 
> One
> dyslexic may not have the same issues as another. One color-blind 
> person
> is not the same as the next. At some point, we have to realize that
> there simply is no way to cater to every single person's needs and
> wants. Not even a strictly textual page can do this because of language
> and comprehension issues.
>
> ----------
> Randal Rust
> Covansys Corp.
> Columbus, OH
>
>

Jonathan Chetwynd
http://www.peepo.co.uk
"It's easy to use"

Received on Wednesday, 21 January 2004 10:37:31 UTC