Fwd: Physical kiosk designs - suggested options?

Tue Feb 9 01:26:31 UTC 2010

Hi Everett,

Thanks for responding!! I'll go back to the wiki page and update images with alt tags - as suggested.

Currently, the plan for the kiosk is for a person to browse and select a tour, then print their selection upon entry to the museum space. 

After I read through Alison's notes [http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Notes+from+chat+with+blind+user+about+museum+experience+%28January+13%2C+2010%29] we started to explore alternative solutions. 

One of the solutions we came up with was, a blind person preplanning a trip to the museums could visit the web site, browse and select a tour, then download the tour as a MP3. This would give folks an audio account of their tour.  

We are questioning the value of such a tool - any comments on possible solutions would be paramount at this time!!

Best, Vicki 

----- Original Message -----
From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett at zufelt.ca>
To: "Victoria Moulder" <vmoulder at sfu.ca>
Cc: "fluid-work" <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
Sent: Monday, 8 February, 2010 15:49:28 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Physical kiosk designs - suggested options?

Good evening Vicki, 

I noticed a couple of things about this Wiki page. 

1. No mention of users who are blind and partially sighted. This may be a limitation of your project that I'm not aware of, so not a big deal if it is outside of the scope of what you're working on. 

2. Although I didn't click on all of the links, I noticed that none of the images had appropriate alt text to let me know what I was looking at / what design plans you are considering. 

It definitely takes a little extra effort and attention to detail to make web content accessible, however, when we don't (I am guilty of it myself when I'm in a hurry) we reduce our potential audience, and limit the access that persons with certain disabilities have to information. In this case, limiting the feedback that a member of the community would be happy to provide regarding your design suggestions. 

Thanks, 

Everett 

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On 2010-02-08, at 6:35 PM, Victoria Moulder wrote: 

Hi Design team et al, 

If you have a time before tomorrow's design meeting you're input would be greatly appreciated! 

We have recently posted our suggested options for the physical kiosk designs on this wiki page [ http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Suggested+Options ] 

Have a look, see you tomorrow! 

Best, Vicki 

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