Hi there,
I'm primarily interested in ensuring that people who may be pre-
literate have access to the benefits of technology and the web in
particular. This represents between 5% and 20% UK population alone,
taking functional illiteracy as an upper bound.
In the past I created a couple of search engines for the pre-literate
http://www.peepo.com in 1998-2004 and http://www.peepo.co.uk 2001-2004.
http://www.peepo.co.uk uses a schema** for describing GUIs which is
here: http://www.peepo.co.uk/temp/gui-schema#
I have been lobbying various people at the BBC over the last few
years, regarding their responsibility to provide a reasonable means
of access to online resources for this user group. I have recently
created a demonstration BBC homepage http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc
which is to be presented next week, comments are very welcome.
I'm a member of GAWDS, IGDA Accessibility SIG, Senit, ldforums, bug
report SVG for Opera, Safari and Mozilla, and subject to certain
technical developments am actively seeking funding for the next
generation of search engines that don't rely on text entry.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
**The underlying concept or purpose being that users might have
control over the quantity and arrangement of information and links
displayed. Hence there might be a range of presentations from the
current http://www.bbc.co.uk through http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc all
relying on a single html file, but displaying between 20-250 links.
This is achieved by using the given schema, together with a range of
editorial techniques, mainly under user control.
There may be a relationship with DIAL Device Independent Authoring
Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/
though the focus is somewhat different.
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