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From: Debbie Charles
Date: Thu, Feb 09 2006 9:15AM
Subject: kiosk and accessibility
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I'm just full of questions today! :)
We have a group that is developing a kiosk that will be in a public
location on campus. It will be 'touch screen' activated. Does anyone have
any experience in how to make sure it is accessible?
thanks,
Debbie
From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Thu, Feb 09 2006 9:30AM
Subject: RE: kiosk and accessibility
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Debbie Charles wrote:
> I'm just full of questions today! :)
>
> We have a group that is developing a kiosk that will be in a public
> location on campus. It will be 'touch screen' activated. Does anyone
> have
> any experience in how to make sure it is accessible?
Some years ago, I did demonstrations with a laptop computer equipped
with a touch screen. One thing that came up on a regular basis is the
"size" of your hyperlinks. If images, they should really be no less
than roughly 32px X 32px (there is a little wiggle room here), text
links should be no less than 6 - 8 letters (use a phrase rather than a
word whenever possible). Think chubby fingers vs. mouse pointer...
Given the kiosk nature of your user-agent, I would also suggest not
letting the "designers" make the font too small - in fact the default
16px* should be the baseline font size.
HTH
JF
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John Foliot = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Web Accessibility Specialist
WATS.ca - Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca
Phone: 1-613-482-7053
(* The W3C has specified 16px/96ppi as a standard default text size, and
most modern browsers on the Macintosh and Windows platforms have honored
that specification since 2000. See the W3C CSS1 Specifications at
www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111#length-units plus the Errata Notice
correcting the original CSS1 spec.:
www.w3.org/Style/css1-updates/REC-CSS1-19990111-errata.html )
From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Thu, Feb 09 2006 9:45AM
Subject: kiosk and accessibility
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Make the kiosk accessible by who?
That is the first and most important question to ask since it informs
the answers to all other questions.
Figure out who will be using you kiosk, and how, and that will tell
you what the accessibility needs are. E.g. do you need a spoken
interface of some kind?
--Kynn
On 2/9/06, Debbie Charles < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I'm just full of questions today! :)
>
> We have a group that is developing a kiosk that will be in a public
> location on campus. It will be 'touch screen' activated. Does anyone have
> any experience in how to make sure it is accessible?
>
> thanks,
>
> Debbie
>
>
>
>
>
From: John Middleton
Date: Thu, Feb 09 2006 10:00AM
Subject: Re: kiosk and accessibility
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Debbie Charles wrote:
> I'm just full of questions today! :)
> We have a group that is developing a kiosk that will be in a public
> location on campus. It will be 'touch screen' activated. Does anyone
> have any experience in how to make sure it is accessible?
> thanks,
> Debbie
Debbie,
May I suggest contacting the RERC on Universal Interface and Information
Technology Access. You may view project details at:
http://tinyurl.com/9wvzd.
Contact Info:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Trace Research and Development Center
1550 Engineering Drive, 2107 ECB
Madison, WI 53706-1609
Principal Investigator: Gregg C. Vanderheiden, PhD
Contact: Kate Vanderheiden
Voice: (608) 263-5788
TT: (608) 263-5408
Regards,
John Middleton