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Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences

Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences. Behzad Kateli Latrobe University. Presentation Overview. What are Annotations? How can they be used? Annotation Tools Amaya and Annotea Use Cases and Demonstrations. What are annotations?.

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Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences

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  1. Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences Behzad Kateli Latrobe University

  2. Presentation Overview • What are Annotations? • How can they be used? • Annotation Tools • Amaya and Annotea • Use Cases and Demonstrations

  3. What are annotations? • Attachments to web documents: • Notes • Comments • Interpretations • Reviews • Explanations • External Remarks etc..

  4. How can they be used? • Teacher reviewing homework/assignments • Teacher adding annotations for students with special needs • Students annotating for research/study • Museums annotating cultural artefacts • Etc

  5. Annotation Tools • Annotea http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ • Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ • Annozilla http://annozilla.mozdev.org/ • Annogates http://www.formatvorlage.de/experiment/annotea/ • Zope http://www.zope.org/

  6. Annotation Tools (cont) • Snufkin • http://jibbering.com/snufkin • SWAD-Europe Annotea Tools • http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200209/annodemo/readme.html • LibAnnotea • Moving Development from Amaya to Mozilla

  7. Annotea • W3C annotation server • Uses W3C standards and Technologies • Uses RDF metadata framework • User access • Store, edit, delete annotations

  8. Annotea (cont) • Installation Information: • W3C installation instructions can be painful • Use installation Make file. http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/dist/ Eric Prud'hommeaux

  9. Amaya • Free W3C web browser and authoring tool. • Build, modify web pages. • Annotation feature

  10. Educational Use Case • Annotating for students with special needs/preferences. Rebecca is an international student from Greece visiting an Australian university. She is a little worried that she will not be able to understand her course materials as her English literacy is very limited.

  11. Use Case (cont) • Add annotation of text in Greek • Use Bable Fish translation Service • http://babelfish.altavista.com/ • Change text size, color, font, background • Live example www.ozewai.org/2004

  12. Assisting students with disabilities Paper Case Study Summary: • Maria is a successful student who often has difficulty with technical English. • Like many intelligent students, Maria is dyslexic

  13. Use Case (Cont) • Factors to Consider (Dyslexia.com) • Background Colour • Font Style • Images and Pictures • Short Sentences and Paragraphs • Paragraph Justification • Navigation • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope

  14. Interpretation of Quinkan Cultural Resources • Cultural Repository • Annotations can be made by: • Anthropologists • Archeologists • Researchers • Cataloguers • Etc

  15. WORKSHOP FRIDAY • Very hands-on • Matchbox Server • Small intro to Annotea • Focus on Amaya • Exercises on creating annotations

  16. More Information • For more information please read the paper submitted at OZEWAI 2004 Behzad Kateli and Liddy Nevile, Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences, Ozewai 2004. Behzad Kateli – bakateli@cs.latrobe.edu.au Liddy Nevile - liddy@SunriseResearch.org

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