Sue, My school (CSU Stanislaus) has been experimenting with Second Life, but I recently learned that it's not going to pursue developing anything substantial much right now precisely because there is no good way to support visually disabled users and so we could never require students to use it; it would always have to be an optional add-on. --Requiring something that is inaccessible to any group of students is of course right out. Best, Kim English Dept. CSU Stanislaus On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Sue Cranmer <sue@jcranmer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Hello
I'm writing to ask how members of the list are supporting students with disabilities when using online social worlds such as second life. Whilst there is a growing awareness that certain groups of disabled users enjoy aspects of participating in online worlds which they are unable to carry out in the so-called real world, such as wheelchair users being able to walk etc, others are unable to participate at all. For instance, screen readers for blind and partially sighted users do not work within second life; nor do speech input systems such as Dragon naturally speaking (which I use). I would be really interested to hear of list members experiences.
Best Wishes
Sue
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