Cultivate Interactive Issue 8: Features
IST Projects:
Other Areas:
- Giving Presentations with Accessibility in Mind
Alistair Edwards gives advice on public speaking - bearing in mind that
not everyone in the audience may be able to see your slides or hear you speak.
- Handscape: Exploring potential use scenarios for mobile
computing in museums Dr.Geri Gay, Angela Spinazze and Michael Stefanone
write about the research being undertaken in the Handscape Project
which is focusing upon potential use scenarios for mobile (hand-held) computing
in museums. Further material on Handscape is available on its recent
symposium.
- Can I Link To Your Site? Authors of Web pages
normally provide links to other Web resources. But should permission be sought before
doing this? Can creating a link to a public document on the Web even be illegal?
Brian Kelly considers the matter.
- Weasel: Access to Music Notation for Blind People
Ben Challis reports on a non-visual approach
to presenting music notation for blind music learners. Weasel is
an audio-tactile approach to addressing common problems
associated with conventional non-visual notations like Braille
music and vocally annotated scores.
Date of Page:15 November 2002