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Metadata (2 Links)  Metadata for Accessibility Report: Identifies Metadata Issues Enabling Support for Accessibility and Multilingualism (Word Format - 770Kb) by CEN/ISSS MMI-DC (WI5), October 2004. This CEN Workshop Report summarizes the problems associated with multilingualism and the mismatch of content presented to users. 

Teachers' Domain Accessibility Demonstration "This site demonstrates use of the IMS AccessForAll specifications in a digital library of educational materials. The specifications describe accessible learning content so that teachers and learners can locate and use it more easily, and each user can create a personal profile of needs and preferences (visual, aural, or hardware-based) for tailored presentation of learning content". At the moment, it is only a demo version which includes some basic metadata. Click on a user to see what resources are accessible to that user based on their preferences. For example, Vinod Bavishi has set up his preferences (although we don't get to see them) to say that he can't use sound, therefore the "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt" resource shows that it's not accessible to him via a cross. The accessibility characteristics of each resource are shown as an icon - closed captions, audio description, keyboard accessible, text transcipt, text description.

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Web Mobility (2 Links)  A Pilot Study to Examine the Mobility Problems of Visually Impaired Users Travelling the Web (PDF format - 2.9Mb) by Simon Harper, Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, University of Manchester. As part of the Towel Project and in conjunction with Towel: Real World Mobility on the Web (PDF format - 90Kb), this paper describes a pilot study of virtual mobility on a focus group of both sighted and visually impaired web users. 

Towel: Real World Mobility on the Web (PDF format - 90Kb) by Simon Harper, Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, University of Manchester. The "Towel" Project draws similarities between real-world travel metaphors and web-based travel metaphors in order to enhance mobility, navigation, and travel through web based content.

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