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Re: The User Experience of Accessibility/Inaccessibility

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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Aug 4, 2010 1:48PM

I did a little video for Desire2Learn if it could be useful. Here's a link
to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2glWw4Yclk

Don't know how much of that will be useful to you, but there ya go.

Carin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Harshbarger" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:34 PM
Subject: [WebAIM] The User Experience of Accessibility/Inaccessibility


I'm looking for online videos either showing people with various types
and degrees of disabilities using technology (i.e. the internet,
hand-held devices, etc.) or videos of people with various types and
degrees of disabilities discussing how they use technology.

I'm putting together a presentation that focuses more on the user
experience end of the accessibility spectrum rather than the technical
end of the spectrum.

For this audience, I want to try to put accessibility and disability
into context..it's not just about providing an alt text for an image so
that a screen reader can read the information to someone who is
blind...its about making technology accessible so that a customer who is
blind can shop, a student who is deaf can complete his coursework, an
developer who has a mobility impairment can complete implementation
testing, etc, etc.

Any videos or other resources that would help communicate that to an
audience would be extremely helpful. I've found a few, but I would
rather have lots.

Thanks!
Tim