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Re: seeking ideas for equivalent task

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 17, 2004 12:58PM

glenda wrote:

> 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?

Although slightly contrived, you could have a page with lots of links to
audio files, but remove the files that the links point to, or disable
quicktime/media player plugins (easy in Firefox, but not sure how well
it plays ball with screenreaders, or how easy it would be to do the same
in IE), to highlight the need for audio transcripts for hearing
impaired users.

But yes, difficult one...

Patrick H. Lauke
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