1. Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences Behzad Kateli Latrobe University

2. Presentation Overview What are Annotations? How can they be used? Annotation Tools Amaya and Annotea Use Cases and Demonstrations

3. What are annotations? Attachments to web documents: Notes Comments Interpretations Reviews Explanations External Remarks etc..

4. How can they be used? Teacher reviewing homework/assignments Teacher adding annotations for students with special needs Students annotating for research/study Museums annotating cultural artefacts Etc

5. Annotation Tools Annotea http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Annozilla http://annozilla.mozdev.org/ Annogates http://www.formatvorlage.de/experiment/annotea/ http://www.formatvorlage.de/experiment/annotea/ Zope http://www.zope.org/

6. Annotation Tools (cont) Snufkin http://jibbering.com/snufkin SWAD-Europe Annotea Tools http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200209/annodem o/readme.html http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200209/annodem o/readme.html LibAnnotea Moving Development from Amaya to Mozilla

7. Annotea W3C annotation server Uses W3C standards and Technologies Uses RDF metadata framework User access Store, edit, delete annotations

8. Annotea (cont) Installation Information: W3C installation instructions can be painful Use installation Make file. http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/dist/ Eric Prud'hommeaux

9. Amaya Free W3C web browser and authoring tool. Build, modify web pages. Annotation feature

10. Educational Use Case Annotating for students with special needs/preferences. Rebecca is an international student from Greece visiting an Australian university. She is a little worried that she will not be able to understand her course materials as her English literacy is very limited.

11. Use Case (cont) Add annotation of text in Greek Use Bable Fish translation Service http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Change text size, color, font, background Live example www.ozewai.org/2004www.ozewai.org/2004

12. Assisting students with disabilities Paper Case Study Summary: Maria is a successful student who often has difficulty with technical English. Like many intelligent students, Maria is dyslexic

13. Use Case (Cont) Factors to Consider (Dyslexia.com) Background Colour Font Style Images and Pictures Short Sentences and Paragraphs Paragraph Justification Navigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope

14. Interpretation of Quinkan Cultural Resources Cultural Repository Annotations can be made by: Anthropologists Archeologists Researchers Cataloguers Etc

15. WORKSHOP FRIDAY Very hands-on Matchbox Server Small intro to Annotea Focus on Amaya Exercises on creating annotations

16. More Information For more information please read the paper submitted at OZEWAI 2004 Behzad Kateli and Liddy Nevile, Using Annotations to Increase Accessibility for People with Special Needs and Preferences, Ozewai 2004. Behzad Kateli – bakateli@cs.latrobe.edu.aubakateli@cs.latrobe.edu.au Liddy Nevile - liddy@SunriseResearch.orgliddy@SunriseResearch.org