Tom,
judging by your response you may be interested in http://www.peepo.co.uk
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 23 May 2006, at 03:01, Tom Worthington wrote:
At 08:57 PM 5/20/2006, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> ... interested in ensuring that people who may be pre- literate
> have access to the benefits of technology and the web in
> particular. ...
The Beijing 2008 Olympics Committee asked me how their web site could
be improved over that for the Sydney 2000 games <http://
www.tomw.net.au/2003/bws.html>.
One suggestion I made was to use the existing standardized sport
pictograms as clickable buttons. As an example "Archery" is
represented by a stylized drawing of a person with a bow and arrow
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/bws.html#pictograms>. As well as aiding
people who could not read text, they would be big enough to be used
as buttons on a kiosk touch screen.
These standard images are used at the sports venues of each Olympics.
So it may seem obvious to use these for navigation on the web pages,
but they didn't do it for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
> ... a demonstration BBC homepage http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc
> which is to be presented next week, comments are very welcome. ...
Stylized drawings might be better than photos for the buttons. For
individual programs the program's opening credits might be suitable.
As an example Dr Who has a very recognizable logo which could be used.
For more generic categories, you might consider using some of the
commonly used pictograms, such as those in the ISO 7001 Public
information symbols standard. There is also a standard set of
pictograms for Japanese i-mode mobile phones <http://
www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/tag/emoji/list.html#list2>.
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