Are guidelines enough? An introduction to designing Web sites accessible to older people

Milne, Scott; Dickinson, Anna; Carmichael, Alex; Sloan, David; Eisma, Roos; Gregor, Peter

doi:10.1147/sj.443.0557

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“…When making improvements for accessibility purposes, there is a relatively specialised skillset required to make sure that changes don't have an overall negative effect [31]. There is always a reason why something shouldn't be done, and with the maintenance of software the reason may be 'nobody can actually do it'.…”

Section: Sociological and Physical Accessibilitymentioning

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Power and perception in the scandal in academia

Heron

Belford

2015

SIGCAS Comput. Soc.

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The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper is a companion piece to that case study, discussing the third and fourth revelations with reference to the issues raised, the mainstream media, and the formal academic literature. The discussion presented here is not intended to be exhaustive or definitive. It is instead indicative of an approach that could be taken within a formal educational context, and illustrative of the kind of discussions that ideally emerge from the effective use of the material.

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Section: Sociological and Physical Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Power and perception in the scandal in academia

Heron

Belford

2015

SIGCAS Comput. Soc.

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“…In the case of disabled persons, most guidelines are developed for those individuals with the most severe disabilities. The needs of individuals with mild to moderate disabilities are often overlooked [9]. Also, Fairweather and Trewin point out that the cognitive impairments that affect many groups are "invisible" when compared to sensorimotor impairments like low vision or spasticity [27, p. 146].…”

Section: Web Accessibility For Disabled Personsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Technical Communication Students to Function as User Advocates in a Self-Service Society

Cleary

Flammia

2012

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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The self-service nature of today's society means that technical communicators are needed more than ever before since users may find themselves struggling to make sense of online documentation with minimal support from the institutions that provide it. Certain demographics within the user population (older adults, disabled persons, non-native speakers) may face serious challenges when trying to use self-service documentation. Technical communication educators should prepare students to function as user advocates for members of these groups. Technical communication students need a thorough understanding of the challenges that may interfere with an audience's ability to use websites and other online documentation. This article suggests ways to help students gain this understanding through course content and by structuring service-learning and virtual team projects in which students can put their newly-developed understanding into practice.

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“…The W3C Device Independence initiative promotes the idea of "Access to a Unified Web from Any Device in Any Context by Anyone" [25]. However, experience shows that these guidelines have not been successful in producing accessible Web sites [16]. W3C initiatives on alternative interaction modalities cover just a subset of modalities required by accessibility solutions, such as speech and handwriting.…”

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Web browser accessibility using open source software

Obrenović

Ossenbruggen

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) - W4A '07

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A Web browser provides a uniform user interface to different types of information. Making this interface universally accessible and more interactive is a long term goal still far from being achieved. Universally accessible browsers require novel interaction modalities and additional functionalities, for which existing browsers tend to provide only partial solutions. Although functionality for Web accessibility can be found as open source and free software components, their reuse and integration is complex because they were developed in diverse implementation environments, following standards and conventions incompatible with the Web.To enable the integration of existing partial solutions within a mainstream Web browser environment, we have developed a middleware infrastructure, AMICO:WEB. This enables browser access to a wide variety of open source and free software components. The main contribution of AMICO:WEB is in enabling the syntactic interoperability between Web extension mechanisms and a variety of integration mechanisms used by open source and free software components. It also bridges the semantic differences between the high-level world of Web XML-based APIs and the low-level APIs of the device-oriented world.We discuss the design decisions made during the development of AMICO:WEB in the context of Web accessibility, using two typical usage scenarios: one describing a disabled user using a mainstream Web browser with additional interaction modalities; another describing a non-disabled user browsing in a suboptimal interaction situation.

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Are guidelines enough? An introduction to designing Web sites accessible to older people

Cited by 46 publications

References 15 publications

Power and perception in the scandal in academia

Power and perception in the scandal in academia

Preparing Technical Communication Students to Function as User Advocates in a Self-Service Society

Web browser accessibility using open source software

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