hi Marvin
I am trying to understand the task you need help with. Pardon my
ignorance on matters relating to the HCI for the poorly sighted.
Perhaps you could educate me on this while I try to help.
From what you are saying, it sounds like you are making what I would
call wireframes, which is to say a rough description of where the
various elements will generally sit on a page, without all of the
dressing, like colours, logos, branding, images and without
describing the sizes of the text exactly. Is that what you are
referring to as storyboards?
The second question might be irrelevant but had you been able to see
in the past? I only ask as I understand it is easier to describe
visual conepts to those who lost their sight as opposed to those who
never had sight in the first place. The former have a memory of what
seeing was, making descriptions and analogies easier for the sighted
to use as examples.
We use Quark, InDesign and OmniGraffle for these tasks, but I am not
sure what would work well for your computer interface. I would have
thought that MS Word tables would be useful for this, as would HTML
tables, perfect in-fact as you can conceive of, for example a three
column layout and describe it well using tables. How is dreamweaver
as an interface for you as I understand it is very good at
manipulating tables in general. Is that a possible tool?
It would also be helpful if you could tell us what your instructor
found lacking, so we could address their concerns directly.
Joe
On Oct 10 2007, at 04:46, marvin hunkin wrote:
Hi.
doing a project for my website development course.
now, part of the requirements says that i need to create a story
board to represent what content is to be displayed on each page.
Now sighted students, would draw navigation and story board diagrams.
now, had to do this in word tables and tried html.
but my lecturer is still not happy with what i have come up with.
now, just wondering, is there any software, that might be able to
represent the story boards for the four websites that i am
developing for this semester.
any tips, tricks, or any other similar experiences.
let me know, if anyone been in the same position.
unfortunately the guy who did start to develop an accessible text
to speech drawing software, got his phd, and did not complete the
project and still in limbo.
he got to the third user tests, and then nicked off.
he did this at Burkely University in Callifornia and the product
was to be called Intercommunication Draw 2.
okay, can you help out or give suggestions or how to resolve these
problems?
cheers Marvin.
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