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Re: Accessibility guidelines for information kiosks

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mar 6, 2002 8:04AM

Section 508 provides information on all types of electronic equipment,
although the requirements are a bit turse.
http://www.access-board.gov/news/508.htm

A resources site can be found at:
http://section508.gov/

The Trace Center has done alot of work in accessible Kiosks and other types
of information technology:
http://www.trace.wisc.edu

Georgia Tech also has a center on accessible design:
http://www.catea.org/

Human - Computer Interaction & Assistive Technology Laboratory (Constantine
Stephanidis)
http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/at-hci/

Jon


At 05:35 PM 3/6/2002 +1100, Oliver Burmeister wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm new to this list and after being a voyeur for a couple of weeks, thought
>its about time I join the conversation.
>
>I have 2 requests:
>
>1. I teach HCI at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I would be
>interested in hearing from anyone who has incorporated accessibility issues
>into their teaching of HCI, to get ideas for how I could do likewise.
>
>2. This semester my Maters students do a major usability project prototyping
>a new interface for a touch-screen information kiosk that has in recent
>times (since Oct last year) become popular with the public in Melbourne. I
>realise this list is meant to be reserved for discussing web accessibility
>issues, but I'm hoping this request with still within the realms of
>acceptability. Clearly there are guidelines for accessibility for web
>design, but what about the design of other products, such as information
>kiosks? This is not be a major component of the Masters project, but I would
>like to raise awareness of accessibility issues amongst my 49 students.
>
>I look forward to your replies. Regards,
>
>Oliver
>
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>Lecturer
>Swinburne Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory
>School of Information Technology
>Swinburne University of Technology
>PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
>Australia
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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