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From: Glenda
Date: Nov 17, 2004 12:24AM

Hi all,

I'm putting the finishing touches on a mini-course "Web Accessibility: What
is This All About?" to be delivered via email. For Lesson One, I provide
several "awareness" tasks, ie surf with no mouse, turn images off, check
colour contrast, turn off speakers, and try Webaim screen reader simulator.

My first student is blind and uses JAWS -- kinda feel like I'll be preaching
to the converted, but oh well. Obviously the awareness tasks won't work for
him. I would like to give him a task that would make him aware of
accessibility issues facing other disability sets -- since Web accessibility
isn't only about blind issues. But I'm stumped! What other awareness tasks
are there that he might be able to do? The only disability set I haven't
covered is cognitive. Not sure how to test that.

Your ideas are definitely welcomed!

Cheers,
Glenda
Soaring Eagle Communications
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