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From: Steve_Roberts@national.com.au
Date: Mar 6, 2002 9:06PM


Hi Oliver,

Guess starting with the aussie anti discrimation act and what is a
disability.
There are solutions for Kiosk being made accessible for people with various
forms of disabilities. The kiosk I guess would need come form of keypad as
it would be near impossible for a blind person to touch the required point
on a touch screen.

The National Bank is piloting ATM's with screen readers included. The
visually impaired person plugs in their headphones. They still use the
standard ATM keypad which has various braille type symbols on the keys.

I'll be talking and demoing a bit on Accessibility when I do my talk in
April, if that is still a goer. I use JAWS, a video clip and a screen
magnifier in the demo.

Recently I have developed a PowerPoint template and some instructions for
development teams to create a reasonable interactive prototype of possible
screens which I can demo at the talk also.

Hope to talk with you some more soon. Still waiting on our restructure to
be announced. Rumor has it will be announced in the next couple of weeks.


Regards
Steve Roberts,
Senior Technology Specialist - Usability
National Australia Bank
(National Treasurer, Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group
of ESA [CHISIG], www.CHISIG.org)
5/100 Victoria Pde
East Melbourne 3002
Phone: 61- 3-9208-8042
Mob: 0411 402 924
Fax: 61 -3-9208-8583
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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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Oliver Burmeister
Lecturer
Swinburne Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory
School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
Australia
(T) +61 3 9214 8304
(F) +61 3 9214 5501
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