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RE: Discussion for assistive technology users.

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From: Richard Sweet
Date: Jan 9, 2004 10:16AM

Depends on how much time you have for the exercise. I would suggest getting
them to do things they would do on a regular basis themselves: look for a
piece of information on a popular website, write and read emails, maybe do a
simple bit of word processing (including formatting text!). If you're doing
this at the start of the semester, go (at first anyway) for things that ARE
accessible; when they realise how difficult this is, then you can explain
how much more difficult it is when resources/software are not designed
properly!

Richard

> Hi All,
>
> Next semester I'll be teaching computers and society to a
> group of majors. I've decided to make about 1/3 of the course
> address accessibility.
>
> I've been thinking of interesting projects. One is to turn a
> group loose with Jaws on some new piece of software. The
> catch is that they must turn the screen off when they use
> Jaws. We've got a couple of copies in our computer labs.
> So, they'll be able to practice. Is this a reasonable
> project? What can I do to make it tractible. Is there a
> particularly