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by a.natalia

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Hi..i'm a student of IT and i'm doing my final year project.My lecturer asked me to design a web page for blind people by the usage of the mouse.Is there any of you have some guideline how to design the web or examples,web site that i can refer to? What are the needs in the particular web page?All i can think of is audio (sound and voice activated).Please help me out..I'm totally blank right now!

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by generalist

You might want to check into various ADA standards.

Also consider the following URL:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

This is the Web Accessibility Initiative of the official WWW standards organization. (The ones who set HTML standards.)

One of these standards is the use of ALT tags for images. Page readers look for ALT tags to describe what is in a picture. A description of 'An image' or 'A picture' is useless.

You might also check on campus to see if they have a program called JAWS. (Or something like that.) The program will 'read' a web page aloud, so you can see how well you've done. (You might be embarassed at how badly your page 'reads' though. But live and learn.)

by epepke

The standard way of designing a web page for the blind is to design for Lynx, which is a text-only web page reader driven by a keyboard. The text, of course, can be read by a speech synthesizer or sent to an interactive braille output.

However, your instructor says use the mouse. This seems to me that he and/or she wants you to be a little more creative. It would be a breach of ethics for me to be creative in your stead, but here are three hints:

1) JavaScript
2) Rollover buttons
2) </body></html>

by a.natalia

Hi..thanx for the info.I'm beggining to see a light now.Well,in order to develope a system...we have ( i suppose )to use a model such as Waterfall,GUIDE or SDLC.Is there any other model that i should know besides those i stated?I was thinking to usethe Waterfall model.BUT..my lecturer asked me to relate it to HCI (Human Computer Interaction)in the process. I read about the HCI and i don't have a CLEAR vision about it.Can any of you explain about it? I mean take an example in the process of System Analysis or Designing the System.How can i relate it to HCI? BY THE WAY, a friend of mine can't decide which model to use for developing a multimedia system for kids education.Any suggestions?

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