Re: FYI - "Dear Silicon Valley" re Usability & the Disabled community

This is great.  I just started passing it on.

Yelena

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is film I put together at last minute while in Washington this
> summer as a selected delegate to the National Council on Disability's
> summit re the ADA. The film was made just about entirely on the iPhone
> and it was a last minute idea to do it and participants at the thing
> just were really hungry to talk to designers and engineers directly. I
> look forward to reporting to BayCHI about what I learned at the summit
> soon (after the proceedings are complete).
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> You can already see from this the usual contradiction between the idea
> of 'universal design' and accessibility let alone usability - one
> person's barrier is another person's ideal ..which leads to
> discussions about adaptability Open Source, development strategies and
> tools, etc. Don't even get me started on the captioning process...
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> Best,
> Lisa Rose
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slIlzx4HkdA#
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