At 03:48 PM 5/23/2006, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
>judging by your response you may be interested in http://www.peepo.co.uk ...

Perplexed, as well as interested. After trying the web site for 
several minutes I had no idea what it was for. The web page has no 
title and I had to read the source code to try and work out what it was for.

The DC metadata says "A web directory that uses pictures" and '"It's 
easy to use" by people with learning difficulties: games music films 
health'. I am not an expert in learning difficulties, but I didn't 
find it easy to use.

As an example of the problems, when I put my cursor over one of the 
icons, text appears at the top of the page. This is confusing: if I 
am concentrating on the icon I may not see the text at the top of the 
screen at all. If I see the text, I will likely move the cursor in 
that direction. If the cursor goes over one of the other icons on the 
way to the top of the screen, the text changes.

The first icon, which looks like the greek letter PI, brings up a 
mouse game. A speaker symbol briefly flashes, perhaps indicating 
there should be sound (but there isn't any sound, nor any indication 
what the sound is). The question mark (which should be an "i" 
information symbol if it is for help information), results in an 
error as I don't have some needed plug-in. The other icons request a 
user id and password which I don't have.

I realize that large amounts of text on screen cause problems with 
some forms of learning difficulties, such as Aphasia 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/bws.html#pictograms>. But I suggest a 
simple, standard web page with some text as well as images would be 
much more effective.

ps: You may come across work by Dr. John Worthington, who is an 
expert in learning difficulties and happens to be my brother 
<http://www.jweducation.com/>.  ;-)



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