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Using Annotations to
Increase Accessibility for
People with Special
Needs and Preferences
Behzad Kateli
Latrobe University
Presentation Overview
What are Annotations?
 How can they be used?
 Annotation Tools
 Amaya and Annotea
 Use Cases and Demonstrations
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What are annotations?

Attachments to web documents:
Notes
 Comments
 Interpretations
 Reviews
 Explanations
 External Remarks etc..

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
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Annotation Tools
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Annotea
http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
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Amaya
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
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Annozilla
http://annozilla.mozdev.org/
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Annogates
http://www.formatvorlage.de/experiment/annotea/
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Zope
http://www.zope.org/
Annotation Tools (cont)
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Snufkin
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SWAD-Europe Annotea Tools
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http://jibbering.com/snufkin
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200209/annodem
o/readme.html
LibAnnotea

Moving Development from Amaya to
Mozilla
Annotea
W3C annotation server
 Uses W3C standards and
Technologies
 Uses RDF metadata framework
 User access
 Store, edit, delete annotations
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Annotea (cont)
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Installation Information:
W3C installation instructions can be
painful
 Use installation Make file.
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http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/dist/
Eric Prud'hommeaux
Amaya
Free W3C web browser and authoring
tool.
 Build, modify web pages.
 Annotation feature
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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.
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/2004

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
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Use Case (Cont)
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Factors to Consider (Dyslexia.com)
Background Colour
 Font Style
 Images and Pictures
 Short Sentences and Paragraphs
 Paragraph Justification
 Navigation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope
Interpretation of Quinkan
Cultural Resources
Cultural Repository
 Annotations can be made by:

Anthropologists
 Archeologists
 Researchers
 Cataloguers
 Etc
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WORKSHOP FRIDAY
Very hands-on
 Matchbox Server
 Small intro to Annotea
 Focus on Amaya
 Exercises on creating annotations
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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 – [email protected]
Liddy Nevile - [email protected]