[Irl-dean] Accessibility presentation

[Gerry Ellis]

Hi, Claude,

This reminds me of when I was doing a similar presentation one time. I asked 
the kids to close their eyes to imagine what it is like to be blind. Of 
course, they all closed their eyes and opened them again in a nano-second 
and said they understood.

"Let's try again", I said. "Close your eyes and look at me through your 
kneecaps". This brought a little gasp as some of them finally got the idea 
that disability is permanent, not something that just comes and goes in a 
second.

But, of course, there is always one smart-arse. One little guy pipes up "Oh, 
yes, you see everything brown when you are blind" ... he was wearing brown 
trousers!



Take care,

Gerry Ellis
t/a Feel The BenefIT


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How will you know when you get there?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Claude Saulnier" <claude.saulnier at wandsoft.com>
To: "'Irish Design-for-all and e-Accessibility Network'" 
<irl-dean at list.eeng.dcu.ie>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: [Irl-dean] Accessibility presentation


> Hi all
>
> Just to let you know I am preparing a fun presentation for the kids in my
> eldest son's class (7) on accessibility.
>
> Gerry really impressed me last November talking about integration at 
> school.
> So I have made it on of my side goals to try to help.
>
> I spoke to my son's school teacher, who does not know much about
> accessibility. After explaining a few things, she was very interested. I
> intend to bring a few characters such as Captain Hook, unless I find a 
> more
> modern version from Cartoon Network. Also I want to explain that to every
> problem there is a solution, and maybe show the difficulties a left handed
> and a right handed pupils could have if they are sitting the wrong way 
> round
> (my son is left handed). How the web could help differently abled people,
> and demos of text readers.
>
> If you have some ideas of things (or useful links) that could illustrate
> accessibility to 7 years old, I am interested.
>
> I won't be doing the presentation to the class until November, and I'll 
> keep
> you posted of the outcome. You never know, the school might get more
> differently abled pupils (I have not seen many yet).
>
> Barry, Hugh (or anyone else as it goes) do you know of a Belgian 
> equivalent
> to IRL Dean?
>
> Best regards
>
> Claude Saulnier
> www.wandsoft.com
> (very accessible new website will be launched early November)
>
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