Re: How to demonstrate how well disabled people understand

["David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>]

what are the functional barriers being reduced?  Let us say that it is
blind ness.  In my interface, I have done several things to lower/remove
barriers.  I have provided tactile guidance and audio interactivity and
tactile interactivity in forms that I have found to be most effective at
reducing/eliminating barriers posed by functional limitations due to a
complete lack of vision.

I don't remember how we used the trace interface.  It did leave out
those who cannot use synthesized speech as a means of interaction but it
provided for audible review and correction if necessary.  I know I will
miss key points.  I am not even sure what this exercise is leading to
because I have already pointed out that I am not an chi person but I
have had a lot of good experience in what does and what does not work
from many sides of the issue and many of my pre-conceptions have been
replaced by experiences.  Some have even been borne out but that is due
in part to the fact that I don't jump to conclusions where design is
concerned but rather apply a bit of deduction to te process of
developing a response to a need.

I will impart this bit of anecdota and we'll leave it here.

I was traveling on a plane and in the seats next to me were two women
who spoke in german from the time they sat down till the time the flight
was over.  Although I could hear every thing they wre saying clearly and
caught the rythm of their conversation, inflection and could understand
some of the mood of the discussion, I could in no way begin to
understand the content of the conversation.  This has relivance here
because You as a person who has knowledge in a particular field in a
particular way can talk to someone else with those properties and I can
listen in and would most likely not understand much.  In some ways,
We've been having two one sided conversations.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net>
To: <uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: How to demonstrate how well disabled people understand


Hi, David

I'll try this for a bit, but I'm concerned you're going to be missing
some key points.

OK  How does the interface reduce the functional barrier for editting
the text
that is being entered?

Scott

> Let's turn this around.  Does the interface reduce functional
barriers?
> If so, How?  If I needed to start at the beginning, I'd look for
> information on how to reduce functional barriers.  With those in hand,
> I'd take a look at the interface to see if it was in fact barrier
> reducing or elininating.  Much of this should be common sense but
we'll
> wave that for now.  I don't pretend to know your field but at least
> we've gotten past the point that I am a user.