19/11 to the 24/11Lecture -

Lecture - Disability

The lecture today we looked at disability and Special education. It was nice to see Geenen take back to the stand to take our last few lectures of the term. Today's lecture hit home a bit as i have a deaf sister and took notice a bit more than what i usually would.

Firstly we looked at the special educational needs and disability act that came into force in 2001(SENDA) also the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)

Next we talked about disability guidelines and what measure you could take to create a website which could be used by a disable person with easy.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

These are some of the common problems disable people have when accessing a website.

Flash
PDF Files
Javascript

We then watched a film for 20 mins which focus on diable people and how they access the web. Some of the inventions were interesting to say the least. There was one device on there which interacted with computer using voice commands. Dragon Talk....

We then ended the clip watching animator vs animation 2.... which was pretty amusing to say the least.


Tutorial - Flash (Menu)

In the tutorial today we stuck back in to flash. This was great news as i was keen to pick up where we left off. Menu was the main focus of today. These were pretty simple to do, even though we did dip into action script. Action script was simple enough to use. We created 3 frames and moved back and forward between them. To my surprise that's all we had time for. I was sad to go as i was enjoying the tutorial so much.

Personnel Reflection

I realised this week that having a disability does not necessary mean that u have to miss out on the wounder full world of computers and the web. I feel it is our responsibility in today's society to help the need and that everyone should be given and op purity. I know for a fact when i design a website i am going to take the needs of other people into consideration. It chokes me when people don't get the same opportunity as i do. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be blind, deaf or couldn't use a mouse.

So when i design my webpage next year i am going to undertake tests on it. To see whether a disable person can actually use the site.