Thread Subject: Re: Cognitive Recommendations - compatibility

From: David Poehlman
Date: Sat, Feb 24 2007 10:35 AM

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I'm afraid I'm a bit lost as to what a cognative disability is? can
we have clearer language relating to function?

On Feb 23, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Andi Snow-Weaver wrote:


At our meeting this week, we discussed the recommendations from Dr.
Lewis'
presentation at the February TEITAC. [1]

We thought that the following three could possibly be met with tools or
assistive technologies for people with cognitive disabilities:

- word lookup, or compatibility with word lookup tools
- text reading, or compatibility with text reading tools
- spelling correction for spelling-sensitive interactions

We need a proposal that we can discuss. How about something like this in
the software section?

* Software for displaying or authoring text provides the following
features
or support for assistive technology used by people with cognitive
disabilities:
** the ability to determine the definition of a word
** the ability to read the text outloud

* Software for authoring text provides the ability to check for spelling
errors and correct them or support for assistive technology used by
people
with cognitive disabilities.

[1] http://teitac.org/wiki/Web_and_Software:_Cognitive_recommendations

Andi

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