Identifying Our Own Needs
1. Why are you taking this class?
- you have a personal need for accessibility
- you know someone with a need for accessibility
- you are interested in interface design
- you need a computer course for graduation
2. What are 3 things that you are especially good at? (These can be any
kinds of things, whatsoever.)
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3. Let's assess some of our capabilities.
- How many people in this class have 20/20 vision?
- How many people have 20/20 vision either on their own or with
corrective glasses?
- How many people can distinguish between red and green?
- How many people can pickout a shirt/top/sweater in a shop that
will exactly match some pants that are at home?
- How many of you can easliy follow a map to somewhere you have
never been before?
- How many people have perfect hearing?
- How many people can easily hear someone speaking to them across
the table at a noisy bar?
- How many people can hear the clicking that accompanies a burner
that is left on on the stove when you are sitting in another room of
your home and all else is quiet?
- How many people can tell where a sound came from that was made
behind you?
- How many people have perfect pitch?
- How many of you can do the splits?
- How many of you can touch your toes without bending your knees?
- How many of you can easily lift a 50 kg bag of potatoes?
- How many of you can pick up a dandelion that has gone to seed
without loosing any of the seeds?
- How many of you can play a full octave on the piano with one
hand without moving the position of your wrist?
- How many of you are good at spelling?
- How many of you are good at grammar?
- How many of you speak French?
- How many of you have a "photographic" memory?
- How many of you can easily remember how to do something after
doing it only once?
- How many of you use quick keys on the computer most of the time?
- How many of you make use of help on the computer often?
- How many of you prefer menus to quick keys or command lines?
- How many of you prefer LaTEX to Word?
- How many of you prefer Windows to UNIX?
4. Can we agree that we each have different needs?
5. If we each have different needs, does one size fit all?
Date of last revision: Jan 7, 2008