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

<grin> Well, now, I'll accept travel passes gladly, as travel is something I actually wnt to do. Free theatre tickets are always welcome too. 

Vince.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:55 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Web Accessibility and Ageing session at ICCHP 2008



Don't worry, Vince.  Your time to collect you bus pass will
come soon enough!

It's worth mentioning that Microsoft's Enable Division
commissioned a survey which reckoned that in a couple of
years from now, almost 30% of all computer users in North
America would be using some form of assistive technology.

Now that may simply mean relative minor magnification, large
icons, speech read back, or whatever, right up to full blown
screen readers and other adaptations for physically disabled
people.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vince
Thacker
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:49 PM
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:10 PM
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
e-mail: B.Lingard@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +1 (613) 247-0665
NYC Tel: +1 797-2862
FAX: +1 (613) 247-9998
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