[bcab] Re: Web Accessibility and Ageing session at ICCHP 2008

Hi, Graham and all,
Must agree with you. Surely clear, plain language is what you want for instructional material whatever age the audience is. When do I become "older", I wonder? It sounds like it could be a very strange thing to be. glad to say nobody's yet invited me to join an Evergreen Club or a Young at Heart Group, so I must have escaped so far..... 

Vince.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lingard" <B.Lingard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [bcab] Re: Web Accessibility and Ageing session at ICCHP 2008



Ottawa Canada

Dear Graham and list:

I would consider age related functional limitations to consist
of:

Possibly not knowing how to typewrite;

Manual dexterity limitations caused by the effects of Parkinson's
Disease, Arthritis etc.,

And the other conditions that often afflict the elderly.

While Arthritis can strike at any age, it seems most common in
the elderly.

I lent my father my Nikon SLR camera one time when he was
attending a wedding I wasn't going to.  Also gave him my large
Honeywell Handle-mount electronic flash, showed him how to hook
up and turn on everything and adjust it.

Gave him the manual for the camera.

He said he sat down and read it a few times, looking at the
camera and concluded either it was much simpler to use than he
thought, or he was stupid!

From the photos he took at the wedding, it was much simpler than
he thought!

The wedding party's own photographer honestly thought they had
hired another professional photographer, the kit my father was
using was so much better than his!

Brian
Brian K. Lingard
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